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Below you will find an alphabetical listing of the video and dvd holdings of the Gray Cultural and Learning Center. The collection is constantly being updated, so be sure to check back often.
Videos and dvd's must be checked out IN PERSON, but you can call the Learning Center to check on availability, at 847 432-8900, ext. 242.
To search for a particular video, just fill in the name of the video below, and find out whether it is in our collection. You can also use the "keyword" feature, to search for ANY word that may be found in any part of the description, including title, producer/director, subject, or summary.
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Title: David Ben Gurion
Producer, Director: Alden FIlms
Audience: adult
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Biography -- Ben Gurion, David
Summary: This film describes the life of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben Gurion. Rare archival photographs illustrate various periods of his life, providing an historical background on the establishment of the State of Israel as seen through his eyes. Produced by the Israel Film Service, it is mostly still photos accompanied by narration.
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Title: Day in the Life of Beth El
Producer, Director: Levenstein, Angie
Audience: all
Length: 20 min.
Subject: N.S.S. Beth El
Summary: This video was produced for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Beth El, in 1998. It traces the history of the synagogue, and describes the activities, programs and facilities of the synagogue.
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Title: Dealers Among Dealers
Producer, Director: Ross, Gaylen
Audience: adult
Length: 67 min.
Subject: Jews in New York
Summary: This is an insiders look into the heart of America's jewelry business -- New York City's 47th Street. The gem cutters sing Hebrew songs as they work and dealers buy, sell, shmooze and proffer occasional baubles of wisdom in the diamond exchanges. The real gems are the dealers themselves.
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Title: Dear Kitty
Producer, Director: Anne Frank Center
Audience: elem. - adult
Length: 25 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Anne Frank
Summary: The life of Anne Frank is told with quotations from her diary, scenes from her hiding place, and historical film footage. The film makes complex historical facts understandable, yet without shocking the young viewer. An excellent introduction to the Holocaust for all ages.
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Title: Dem Khazn's Zindl (The Cantor's Son)
Producer, Director: Goldin, Sidney
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: Based on the life of Moishe Oysher, this is the story of a Jewish boy who leaves his native town with a troupe of wandering performers.The youth reaches America, but can barely subsist. He is "discovered" for his voice, and gains success. Yet, he longs to return home. Starring Moishe Oysher, Florence Weiss and others. Yiddish, with English subtitles.
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Title: Demjanjuk Trial, The
Producer, Director: Ben Natan, Nomi
Audience: adult
Length: 50 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Demjanjuk, John
Summary: Few trials have stirred as much emotion as the trial of John Demjanjuk the retired Cleveland auto mechanic who is accused of being "Ivan the Terrible,", the fiend who supervised the gas chambers at the Treblinka concentration camp. The case became entangled in legal issues, and in this video, the issues are discussed and analyzed.
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Title: Der Purim Shpiler (The Jester)
Producer, Director: Green, Joseph
Audience: adult
Length: 90 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: A romantic Jewish comedy about a drifter who wanders from shtetl to shtetl. He finds brief happiness when he falls in love with a shoemaker's daughter in a small town in Galicia. A fantasy about man's quest for the unattainable. In Yiddish, with English subtitles.
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Title: Der Vilner Shtot Khazn (Overture to Glory)
Producer, Director: Nosseck, Max
Audience: adult
Length: 85 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: Moishe Oysher is the "Vilner Balabesi," the cantor who leaves his position as Vilna cantor in order to seek fame and fortune as an opera star in Warsaw. He feels uncomfortable in his new environment and yearns to return home to his wife, child and community. Also starring Helen Beverly, Florence Weiss. Yiddish, with English subtitles.
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Title: Devil's Arithmetic
Producer, Director: Schisgal, Murray
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 97 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Juvenile
Summary: Sixteen year old Hanna Stern is taken on a mystical journey to a concentration camp, in this made for television film adaptation of the book by Jane Yolen. While the events have a surreal, or science fiction feel, the movie is very watchable for young teens. Produced by Dustin Hoffman, in 1999,
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Title: Dhimmis: To Be a Jew in Arab Lands
Producer, Director: Goldstein, David
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 29 min.
Subject: Jews in Arab Countries
Summary: A depiction of the condition of Jews living under Arab domination, and their ultimate return to the land of Israel. Gives a very negative view of the Jewish condition under Islam.
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Title: Diamonds of the Night/ A Bite to Eat
Producer, Director: Lustig, Arnost
Audience: adult
Length: 64 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Fiction
Summary: Diamonds of the Night is a story of two Jewish boys who escape from a train which is transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Ultimately, they are hunted down. A Bite to Eat handles one man's feverish attempt to steal a loaf of bread from a Nazi-guarded train. In Czech, with English subtitles.
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Title: Diary of Anne Frank (1959 version)
Producer, Director: Stevens, George
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 151 min. and 170 min
Subject: Holocaust -- Anne Frank
Summary: The searing tale of eight brave people who live in a cramped attic for two years, in an effort to escape the Nazis. Based on the internationally acclaimed diary of a 13 year old girl, this is the original movie version. Stars Shelley Winters, Lou Jacobi, Ed Wynn and Joseph Schildkraut. 1959.
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Title: Die Kleine Mentshelech
Producer, Director: Israel Music
Audience: adult
Length: 85 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: Three actors, Shmuel Rudensky, Shmuel Atzmon, and Shmuel Segal, retell stories of Shalom Aleichem, including: Kasrilevke Restaurants, A Slow Train, The Competitors, and A Question of Luck. In Yiddish, with English subtitles.
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Title: Digging for the Truth
Producer, Director: Bernstein, Josh
Audience: all
Length: 1 hour per episode
Subject: Archaeology
Summary: Explorer and survival expert Josh Bernstein embarks on an adventure to solve some of the greatest mysteries of mankind, using archaeology and expert historians. As seen on the History Channel. The learning center has Seasons 1 and 2.
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Title: Discovery
Producer, Director: Jewish Theological Seminary
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 58 min.
Subject: Bar Mitzvah -- Fiction
Summary: Dramatic interpretation of twelve-year old David's questions about the forthcoming celebration of his becoming a Bar Mitzvah, and of his own identity as a Jew. As friends answer his queries, we learn not only about the ceremony, but about the heritage it represents, and the responsibilities a Bar or Bat Mitzvah assumes.
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Title: Displaced Persons
Producer, Director: Israel Film Service
Audience: adult
Length: 50 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Displaced Persons
Summary: Feeling lost in their own country, many survivors liberated from the Nazi concentration camps had only one place they would ever feel safe again -- the land of Israel. This film follows the progress of an "illegal" immigrant ship, which set out from Italy to Palestine. It speaks with eyewitness officials and surviving immigrants, and shows the task of running the British Mandate blockades.
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Title: Disputation: A Theological Debate Between Christians and Jews
Producer, Director: Films for the Humanities, Inc.
Audience: adult
Length: 65 min.
Subject: Theology
Summary: Public theological debates between Christians and Jews were a frequent feature of the Midle Ages. This program recreates one of the most famous of these -- the Barcelona Disputation of 1263. The program also shows the consequences of the debate, results with chilling counterparts in this century.
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Title: Divided We Fall
Producer, Director: Hrebejk, Jan, director
Audience: adult
Length: 122 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Righteous Gentiles
Summary: This film tells the true and bittersweet story of a Czechoslovakian couple whose village has been taken over by the Nazis. Josef and Marie Cizek lead a simple life in their apartment, until they decide to hide a young Jewish neighbor in their home. A powerful film, nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film of 2000.
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Title: Dohany Synagogue
Producer, Director: Pressmakers Production
Audience: all
Length: 25 min.
Subject: Budapest -- Synagogues
Summary: The largest synagogue in Europe is located in Budapest, Hungary. Known as the Dohany Street Synagogue, it was built in the 19th century. This video gives a history and tour of that special building.
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Title: Dosvedanya Means Good-bye
Producer, Director: Hantgan, Roberta
Audience: all
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Soviet Jewry
Summary: Tamara Okun waited eight years to receive her exit visa from the Soviet Union. As the years passed, her sense of Jewish identity grew stronger and more profound. Finally, she and her family were given permission to leave, but she was forced to leave her parents behind. This film follows the family's bittersweet journey to America.
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