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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: Tsvi Nussbaum: A Boy from Warsaw
Producer, Director: Karila, Matti-Juhani
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 50 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Warsaw Ghetto
Summary: Many of us are familiar with the photograph of a little boy, his arms raised in surrender, as a German soldier trains his machine gun on him. The photograph has come to symbolize the suffering of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. But who was this little boy? Did he survive the War? This video, about Dr. Tsvi Nussbaum, answers these questions. In color, 1990.
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Title: Tuesdays with Morrie
Producer, Director: Albom, Mitch
Audience: adult
Length: 89 min.
Subject: Death and Dying
Summary: Based on a true-life story, this is a loving memoir to a man whose lessons on life have much to teach us about ourselves. Jack Lemmon delivers an outstanding performance as Morrie Schwartz, the Brandeis University professor who is battling Lou Gehrig's disease. Hank Azaria plays the accomplished journalist, who visits Morrie throughout the last months of his life. A very moving film.
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Title: Turkey's Sephardim
Producer, Director: Salzmann, Laurence and Anyse
Audience: adult
Length: 45 min.
Subject: Sephardim -- Turkey
Summary: This film traces the 500 year history of Jews in Turkey. Using beautiful photographs, and film taken in modern Turkey, the creators explore the vibrant civilization that began after the expulsion from Spain in 1492.
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Title: Turn Left at the End of the World/Sof Ha'olam Smola
Producer, Director: Nesher, Avi
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 108 min.
Subject: Hebrew Fiction
Summary: Set in a tiny, isolated village in the Judean Desert in the late 1960's, this compelling movie is about two immigrant families, one from Morocco, one from India, who become neighbors. As they are forced to live in the same community, they attempt to build their lives and to get along. The teen-aged daughters become friends, amidst the chaos and isolation of their lives. In Hebrew and English, with English subtitles.
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Title: Tuva on the Roof
Producer, Director: Zafir, Tuvia
Audience: adult
Subject: Israel -- Humor
Summary: This video, all in Hebrew, is a compilation of sketches and songs performed by Israeli artist Tuvia Zafir.
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Title: U'netane Tokef
Producer, Director: Kibbutz Bet HaShita
Audience: all
Length: 30 min.
Subject: ritual
Summary: Kibbutz Bet HaShita has produced this musical rendition of the prayer "U'netane Tokef."
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Title: Ugly Face of Freedom
Producer, Director: CBS News
Audience: adult
Length: 15 mn.
Subject: Jews in the Ukraine
Summary: This poignant segment of CBS News 60 Minutes, (10-23-94 )portrays the difficulties of living in Ukraine, following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Particular difficulties of ethnic minorities, such as the Jewish community, are studied.
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Title: Unafraid, The
Producer, Director: Levin, Meyer
Audience: adult
Length: 35 min.
Subject: Israel -- Immigration
Summary: In 1947, noted writer Meyer Levin recorded on film the journey of Jews trying to reach the shores of Palestine under the watchful eyes of the British. These people fled Europe, over mountains, on ships, risking their lives. They came to the land of Israel on a ship called The Unafraid. What became of them? Levin returned to Israel 30 years later to find out. This film contains segments from the original film.
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Title: Unafraid, The
Producer, Director: Levin, Meyer
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 35 min.
Subject: Israel -- History
Summary: This film is a follow-up to a documentary which Meyer Levin recorded in 1947 about the journey of Jews trying to reach the shores of Palestine under British eyes. That documentary, called "The Illegals" is partially shown here, and then we see what became of those emigres who came to Israel during that time. 1977.
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Title: Uncle Moses
Producer, Director: Weiss, Louis and Rubin Goldberg
Audience: adult
Length: 87 min.
Subject: Yiddish Fiction
Summary: While Hollywood was tackling difficult contemporary issues in the early 1930's, so was the Yiddish cinema. In this adaptation of Sholom Asch's novel, Maurice Schwartz plays a despot who rules the Lower East Side sweatshop, even though he is from the same Polish town. Focuses on working conditions and immigrants. Yiddish, English subtitles.
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Title: Uncle Pinchey Comes Home
Producer, Director: Jewish Educational Video
Audience: children
Length: 30 min.
Subject: Fiction -- Juvenile
Summary: The Small Wonder Puppet Theater presents a puppet show about Uncle Pinchey, a loveable gentleman from Russia, who arrives in America and looks up his family. Also on this tape is the story of The Unhappy King", who discovers that you can only be happy by helping others.
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Title: Under the Domim Tree
Producer, Director: Cohen, Eli
Audience: adult
Length: 102 min.
Subject: Hebrew -- Fiction
Summary: Based on the Autobiographical memoir by Gila Almagor, this film tells the poignant and sometimes harrowing story about a group of teenagers living in a youth village for orphans who survived the Nazi concentration camps and other troubled Israeli youths in the 1950's. Masterfully directed, and heart-wrenching. In Hebrew, with English subtitles. 1996.
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Title: Unfinished Exodus
Producer, Director: AAEJ
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 22 min.
Subject: Jews in Ethiopia
Summary: Elie Wiesel speaks about the plight of the Jews of Ethiopia in this update on the condition of those Jews. The video shows their hunger and human suffering, isolated and scattered throughout Ethiopia. It is an excellent portrayal of the Jews there, their living conditions, as well as their adjustment in the State of Israel. 1987.
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Title: Unlikely Heroes
Producer, Director: Trank, Richard
Audience: adult
Length: 120 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Resistance
Summary: This film, narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, and co-written and produced by Rabbi Marvin Hier and Richard Trank, tells the stories of extraordinary men and women who exemplified the highest level of courage and human dignity during the Holocaust. It highlights seven extraordinary individuals who took it upon themselves to take action, through Jewish resistance and individual heroism.
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Title: Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Producer, Director: Goldstein, Alvin
Audience: adult
Length: 83 min.
Subject: Biography -- Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
Summary: On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, the so-called atomic spies", were executed. Their death fostered a belief by some that they were innocent victims rather than spies who had stolen atomic secrets. This is a documentary look at the facts and procedures of the Rosenberg case, and the climate of the timees. Contains newsreel footage. 1974.
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Title: Uprising
Producer, Director: Avnet, Jon
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 177 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Warsaw Ghetto
Summary: This made-for-television movie stars Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, and Donald Sutherland as the Warsaw Ghetto resistance fighters who held off the Nazis in 1943.This is a remarkable story, shown in semidocumentary style, as ordinary people took upon themselves the extraordinary task of defying evil.
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Title: Ushpizin
Producer, Director: Dar, Gidi
Audience: adult
Length: 92 min.
Subject: Hebrew Fiction
Summary: Powerful and funny, this film is the story of Moshe and his wife, Malli, who are praying for a mircle. Their prayers are answered, in the form of a large sum of money that lands mysteriously in their laps, as well as in the form of two uninvited guests, who help themselves to the Bellanga's hospitality. These beautiful characters then wonder whether they have found God's favor, or if their devotion to God is being tested. In Hebrew, with English subtitles.
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Title: Varian's War
Producer, Director: Chetwynd, Lionel
Audience: teen - adult
Length: 122 min.
Subject: Holocaust -- Fry, Varian
Summary: As an American journalist working in Europe at the outbreak of World War II, Varian Fry was appalled at the Nazi atrocities he witnessed. He became driven to fight against Nazi brutality, recognizing that action had to be taken if Jews, artists, intellectuals, and European heritage were to survive. This is the true story of this forgotten hero who saved 2000 people from certain extermination. Starring William Hurt and Julia Ormond.
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Title: Victim and Victor (Manfred Steinfeld)
Producer, Director: Lewis, David C.
Audience: all
Length: 57 min.
Subject: Steinfeld, Manfred
Summary: Manfred Steinfeld fled Nazi Germany to America as a young Jewish boy. Escaping the Holocaust, he left everything he knew and loved behind, became a decorated U.S. soldier, and a successful businessman. This film retraces many of the life-changing events he experienced just before and after World War II and the Holocaust.
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Title: Victory at Entebbe
Producer, Director: Chomsky, Marvin J.
Audience: all
Length: 119 min.
Subject: Israel -- Entebbe
Summary: This is the story of the hijacking of Air France Flight 139, which was commandeered by militant German and Palestinian terrorists on June 27, 1976. The Jewish passengers were separated from the rest, and taken hostage in Entebbe, Uganda. This is the story of their rescue by Israeli special forces, which culminated in the death of Jonathan Netanyahu. Staring Burt Lancaster, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Dreyfuss, Kirk Douglas, Helen Hayes, and Anthrony Hopkins.
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