 | Barcode: 58947080 Call Number: V-HEB 092 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 123 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eyal Sivan and Rony Brauman Description: When Adolph Eichmann was brought to trial in Israel in 1961, the event was broadcast live under the direction of documentarian Leo Hurwitz. That footage, over 500 hours of it, has been locked away in the decades since. Eyal Sivan, inspired by Hannah Arendt's book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, received permission to dig through the footage for a concentrated portrait of the trial and the man. The balding, middle-aged Eichmann looks as scary as an accountant as he ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58944599 Call Number: V-HEB 036 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 97 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eran Riklis Description: A Druze woman from Golan Heights, Israel is engaged to marry a Syrian television star whom she has never met. If she moves to Syria, however, she will never be able to return to her home. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58951075 Call Number: V-HEB 127 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 111 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Yuval Shafferman Description: Now that Itzhak's father is in a coma, and dying, Itzhak is finally willing to visit him, thus breaking a ten-year silence. During his visits to the hospital, Itzhak, a beaten and reserved man, is frustrated to find himself neglected by his own family: his wife, a long suppressed artist whose life's dream is fulfilled that same week; his twenty-seven-year-old son - a "philosopher" still living at home; and his twenty-five-year-old daughter - a tormented lesbian who has had no ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58925167 Call Number: V-HEB 013 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 111 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Avi Nesher Description: Edition: 25th anniversary special ed. In 1970 Israel, during the height of the War of Attrition, a group of Israeli soldiers with singing talent are formed into an entertainment troupe and sent to the front to raise morale. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58965723 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 100 mins Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ismach Hatani Description: "An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a rift between the men and women in a devout community in Jerusalem in this rousing, good-hearted comedy. Awash with Jerusalem's distinctive glow, THE WOMEN'S BALCONY is a warm, poignant portrait of a modern community struggling to balance protocol with practical, progressive values - at once rebellious and respectful in spirit." - Kanopy Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58925150 Call Number: V-HEB 010 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 95 min. DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ilan Moshenson Description: Set in Tel Aviv during the 1950's, this film focuses on two rival youth groups whose behavior and motivation raises questions regarding first generation sabras (native-born Israelis). Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58952456 Call Number: V-HEB 140 Material Type: Video -DVD System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew Description: Three animated shorts: Raspberry Juice, An Apartment for Rent, and Nehama The Flea. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58958480 Call Number: DV-HEB 004 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 101 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Joseph Cedar Description: A taut thriller about the tense relationship between the orthodox nationalists and the military. Both a politico-psychological drama and a love story between a passionate woman and two best friends, Time of Favor raises important questions of faith to one's religion, duty to one's nation, and love for oneself. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Edition: Letterboxed [ed.] Barcode: 58925090 Call Number: V-HEB 004 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 101 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Joseph Cedar Description: A taut thriller about the tense relationship between the orthodox nationalists and the military. Both a politico-psychological drama and a love story between a passionate woman and two best friends, Time of Favor raises important questions of faith to one's religion, duty to one's nation, and love for oneself. Rating Audience (Video Only): NR Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58958063 Call Number: Israel Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 1320 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Steven Edwards; Oded Guy; Michael Greenspan; Eitan Wetzler; Neta Efrony Description: "An historical documentary series on the first fifty years of the State of Israel." - WorldCat Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection |
| Barcode: 58946182 Call Number: Israel Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 27 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Rami Kimchi Description: The film follows the journey of two Israeli brothers--the elder, an ultra-orthodox Jew, the younger (the filmaker himself), secular--who are searching for a mutual home, and for the right mode for a renewed dialogue between them. Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection |
 | Barcode: 58925136 Call Number: L-NH38 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 50 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew Creator: Asher Tlalim Description: חזי (יחזקאל) שוורץ, סוכן צעצועי ילדים מחיפה, נפרד בשעת בוקר מוקדמת מאשתו טובה ושני ילדיו הקטנים ויוצא בוולבו סטיישן שלו לכיוון ת"א. ביציאה מחיפה הוא אוסף שלושה טרמפיסטים - חייל חובש כיפה, בחורה זרוקה שגבותיה מעוטרים בפירסינג, ובחור ערבי כבן 30 . ארבעה אנשים - ארבעה עולמות, ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58948022 Call Number: V-HEB 106 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 95 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew, Amharic Creator: Directed by Gil Karni Description: Director Gil Karni presents an intimate portrait of a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip from its hopeful beginnings to its turbulent end. Founded in 1990, the coastal Dugit settlement was intended to evoke the rustic tranquility of a Greek fishing village. For a time it did. Scenes of Israeli and Palestinian fishermen living in sun-kissed camaraderie, however, prove all too fleeting. From the rise of the Al Aqsa intifada to the Israeli evacuation of Gaza, Troubled Water takes us behind the ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58994750 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 75 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: dir. by Sagi Bornstein and Udi Nir Description: "A documentary composed entirely of YouTube clips." - IMDb |
 | Barcode: 58945051 Call Number: V-HEB 054 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 97 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz Description: An Israeli drama that takes place in the late 70's. A woman struggles with a claustrophobic marriage and the demands and frustrations of motherhood. Ronit Elkabetz has a tendency for extravagant characters and in this film portrays yet another. Her loveless marriage in shambles, her old lover back in Israel, she stumbles from one situation to the next as if under no power of her own. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58947999 Call Number: V-HEB 054.02 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 97 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz Description: An Israeli drama that takes place in the late 70's. A woman struggles with a claustrophobic marriage and the demands and frustrations of motherhood. Ronit Elkabetz has a tendency for extravagant characters and in this film portrays yet another. Her loveless marriage in shambles, her old lover back in Israel, she stumbles from one situation to the next as if under no power of her own. Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58963234 Call Number: DQ-49173 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 90 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ari Folman Description: Inspired by actual events, Waltz with Bashir chronicles one man's descent into his own half-forgotten past. Filmmaker Ari Folman, an Israeli veteran of the First Lebanon War, encounters an old friend suffering from nightmares of the conflict. Ari begins to wonder why his own memories are full of gaps. In an effort to uncover the truth, he reconnects with old friends and dares to confront the horrors of war. Hailed as "innovative" and "devastating," Waltz with Bashir ... Collection: Askwith Media Library |
 | Barcode: 58963351 Call Number: DV-HEB 162 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 30 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Leon Prudovsky Description: The year is 1991. The beginning of the massive Jewish immigration wave from the USSR to Israel. 12 years old Misha is documenting his family's journey on a home-video camera. The already traumatic immigration experience is enhanced up to absurd proportions, when the family's old aunt dies on the plane just before they reach the land of their ancestors. Now, the family will have to go through various levels of bureaucracy with an immigrating corpse… Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58963754 Call Number: V-HEB 162 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 30 min. System Requirements: PAL Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Leon Prudovsky Description: The year is 1991. The beginning of the massive Jewish immigration wave from the USSR to Israel. 12 years old Misha is documenting his family's journey on a home-video camera. The already traumatic immigration experience is enhanced up to absurd proportions, when the family's old aunt dies on the plane just before they reach the land of their ancestors. Now, the family will have to go through various levels of bureaucracy with an immigrating corpse… Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58945050 Call Number: V-HEB 010.02 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 95 min. DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ilan Moshenson Description: Set in Tel Aviv during the 1950's, this film focuses on two rival youth groups whose behavior and motivation raises questions regarding first generation sabras (native-born Israelis). Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58962692 Call Number: Salinger Music Material Type: Audio -CD Language: Hebrew, English Description: Milken Archive of American Jewish Music Reader's Kaddish (5:45) -- Requiem aeternam (15:57) -- Psalm 23 (3:14) -- Remember! (7:07) -- Hostias (2:48) -- Sanctification (5:53) -- El malei rachamim (8:35) -- Lux aeterna (1:35) -- Justorum animae (1:42) -- Mourner's Kaddish and Lord's prayer (5:51) Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection |
| Barcode: 58944937 Call Number: V-HEB 042 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 97 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Amos Gitai Description: An existential comedy about a half-Arab, half-Jewish Israeli from Haifa, and the second film in Gitai's city trilogy. Moshe Ivgi portrays Moshe, a forty-something only son who is quietly accustomed to his job in a bakery owned by his parents and who takes life as it comes. Neither Arab nor Jew, Moshe spends his life avoiding conflicts both personal and political. As his world is changing around him, it is only a matter of time before Moshe will be forced to confront the realities about ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58952583 Call Number: V-HEB 042.02 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 105 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Amos Gitai Description: An existential comedy about a half-Arab, half-Jewish Israeli from Haifa, and the second film in Gitai's city trilogy. Moshe Ivgi portrays Moshe, a forty-something only son who is quietly accustomed to his job in a bakery owned by his parents and who takes life as it comes. Neither Arab nor Jew, Moshe spends his life avoiding conflicts both personal and political. As his world is changing around him, it is only a matter of time before Moshe will be forced to confront the realities about ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58944797 Call Number: V-HEB 040 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 71 min. System Requirements: Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eytan Fox Description: Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair of two Israeli officers in a remote army base on the Israeli-Lebanese border. They are commanders, they are in love, and they try to find a place of their own in an oppressing and rigid system, which sends them to defend a cause they do not necessarily believe in. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58946581 Call Number: V-HEB 078 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 110 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Amos Gitai Description: Compulsive womanizer Cesar, inertia-bound pianist Israel, and mamma's boy Goldman share friendship, fading youth and diminishing expectations. But when Goldman's father dies, their stagnant lives begin to transform. Israel is seduced by Ella, Cesar's lover and muse. Cesar clumsily reaches back into the relationship debris behind him in search of a meaningful connection. Goldman trades his suffocating family responsibilities for a wander through Tel-Aviv's hot summer night. ... Collection: Language Resource Center |