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Theme of Docu.Text Festival at National Library of Israel: ‘War and Healing’

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Now in its ninth year, the Docu.Text Festival, in cooperation with Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival, will present five days of contemporary filmmaking from Israel and around the world at the National Library...

Director of Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis’ fears world on precipice of World...

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oe Berlinger says he was troubled when he read reports of a 2018 study from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which showed one in 10 millennial Americans thought that Jews were...
Image of Amsterdam. Credit: Lucas Grey/Pixabay.

‘Occupied City’ reveals Amsterdam sites during Nazi German control

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The British filmmaker Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter, his wife and creative partner, described their views on history and European antisemitism in a recent interview discussing their new documentary, “Occupied City.” Disputing the idea that antisemitism has...

Jewish Community of Oporto produces film on the 1506 massacre in Lisbon

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To know the 1506 massacre in Lisbon is to know the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel and the historic genocides of Jews all over Europe. The only change has been in the weapons. The...
Claude Lanzmanns audio archive, Jewish Museum Berlin. Photo by Roman März.

Holocaust audio archive at Jewish Museum Berlin now UNESCO ‘World Heritage’

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As of this month, the Jewish Museum Berlin is home to a collection of objects that is listed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Memory of the World Register. The original 16mm and restored...
From left: Siblings Anne, Sue, Nancy and Steven Spielberg, and lead actors Michelle Williams and Paul Dano at the premiere for “The Fabelmans,” Nov. 6, 2022. Credit: Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock.

Nancy Spielberg: ‘We have to get people back into the theater’

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When Israeli filmmaker Tal Inbar approached Nancy Spielberg with her documentary “Closed Circuit,” about a deadly terrorist shooting at a Tel Aviv cafe in June 2016, Nancy Spielberg knew that she had to produce...
David and Avi Wisnia at a panel discussion as part of the International Conference on Education About Auschwitz and the Holocaust, October 26-29, 2015. Photo courtesy of Avi Wisnia.

How music led to a cantor’s survival story, and how it lives on in...

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April tends to feature a flurry of Holocaust-related arts pieces—from new exhibits to books to webinars and movies. One of them this year offers a through-the-generations feel that brings the past right into viewers’...
Image from the documentary film “Jews of the Wild West,” 2023. Source: Screenshot.

PBS documentary focuses on ‘Jews of the Wild West’

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Amanda Kinsey, an Emmy-award-winning filmmaker, came up with the idea of a documentary on Jews who lived in the Wild West while digging through the Beck Archives in the basement of the University of Denver library. “I was blown...
Former U.S. Ambassador David Friedman and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are touring the original Bible belt as part of a new documentary. Courtesy: David Friedman.

David Friedman and Mike Pompeo travel through original Bible Belt for new documentary

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You can get your kicks on Route 66, or you can travel through history on Route 60. It’s a road trip through the Bible, both old and new. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman...
Award-winning documentary film director and writer Richard Trank in Eastern Europe with his crew on the set of “Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres” by Moriah Films, a division of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, to be released on July 13 on Netflix. Credit: Moriah Films.

Always the optimist: Netflix film on Shimon Peres spotlights political, emotional resilience

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A children’s book by Ruth Krauss called The Carrot Seed, first published in 1945, is a little read that packs a big punch. In it, the main character, a little boy who doesn’t even have...