Haach shel Driks = Driks' Brother

cover image Barcode: 58945468 Call Number: V-HEB 067 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 50 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ori Inbar, Doron Tsabari Description: Depicts the adventures of an Israeli soldier who is mistakenly identified as the brother of one of Israel's leading soccer players. Collection: Language Resource Center

Haaretz Hamuvtachat = Promised land

cover image Barcode: 58947383 Call Number: V-HEB 095 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 88 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Amos Gitai Description: The story tells of a group of young unwitting Estonian girls smuggled through Egypt to be auctioned off as prostitutes in Israel, and of their initiation into this trade of flesh, and finally to the accidental freeing of the one girl who most fought for her freedom. Promised Land both starts and ends in the darkness of night: the opening is a series of abstract images of the desert, where moonlight plays on a camel train led by Arab herders. We then see a border of barbed wire and a group of ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Haasonot Shel Nina = Nina's Tragedies

cover image Barcode: 58944540 Call Number: V-HEB 024 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 106 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Shabi Gabizon Description: Twelve year old Nadav tells us of his dysfunctional family, his parents' divorce, his dying father, his wild mother, and more than everything, about his love for his pretty aunt Nina. When Haimon, Nina's husband dies, Nadav moves in with her to help her during her period of mourning and recuperation - it is then the the best period of his life begins. Overnight, a life of peeping and fantasizing is replaced with actual life beside Nina. In his mind's eye, he becomes her man. When ... Collection: Language Resource Center

HaKamishia HaKamerit / החמשייה הקאמרית = The Chamber Quintet

cover image Barcode: 58925472 Call Number: V-HEB 015 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 80 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eitan Tzur Description: Short Comedy skits satiring Israel stereotypes, politics and culture. Collection: Language Resource Center

HaKayitz Shel Aviya = הקיץ של אביה = Aviya's Summer / Summer of Aviya

cover image Barcode: 58957190 Call Number: Israel Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 91 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eli Cohen Description: "Based on the best selling memoir by Gila Almagor, Aviya's Summer...tells the story of a poignant period in the life of Aviya (Kaipo Cohen), in the early years of the State of Israel. The Holocaust left Aviya fatherless and left her mother, Henia (Gila Almagor), mentally ill. With no one to care for her, she lives in an orphanage. ... Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

HaMaka HaShmonim VeAkhat - המכה השמונים ואחת - The 81st Blow

cover image Barcode: 58945939 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 115 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew Creator: David Bergman ; Jacques Ehrlich Description: An historical document made up of footage and stills shot by the Nazis. A compilation of testimony from witnesses who appeared at the Eichmann trial provides a telling narrative. The film’s title refers to the story of a Jewish boy in one of the ghettos, who was struck with 80 blows. He survived and immigrated to Israel, where he found that no one believed his story -- which for him was the 81st blow! Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection

Hamesh Ma'ot Elef Shahor = Half a Million Back

cover image Barcode: 58946585 Call Number: V-HEB 082 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 90 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Shaike Ophir Description: What if a Chicago gangster story was taking place in Israel-1977? This feature is just the one. Two comedians borrow 500,000 Israeli pounds (about US 90,000 of 1977) from an entrepreneur who launders the mafia money via his night club. What do they want to stage with such a budget? No less than a musical "Awaiting Godo". Needless to say their show has no success, the mafia wants the money back, and the heroes have to run and hide (though unlikely to an American gangster story, in the ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hapanterim Hashkhorim Medabrim = הפנתרים השחורים מדברים =Black Panthers (in Israel) Speak

cover image Barcode: 58925913 Call Number: V-HEB 019 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 54 min. System Requirements: NTSC Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eli Hamo and Sami Shalom Chetrit Description: The Black Panthers in Israel are the social movement of second generation Mizrahim in Israel - Jews originating from Arab and Muslim countries. The uprising of the Black Panthers in the early 1970s had a radical effect on Israeli society. It signaled an awakening of Mizrahi cultural consciousness that continues to this day. The movement took the Mizrahi/class struggle out of its local and nationalist Jewish framework, linking it to the civil rights struggle in the United States, Third World ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hebrew Bananagrams

cover image Barcode: 58960717 Call Number: GAME-HEB001 Material Type: Game Language: Hebrew, English Collection: Language Resource Center

Hebrew for Dummies

Barcode: 58925707 Call Number: IL-HEB Jac Material Type: Language Kit Language: Hebrew, English Description: Book Internet Resource 362 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.) Collection: Language Resource Center

Hebrew From Scratch First Year

Volume Number: disc 1 Barcode: 58922039 Call Number: Hebrew Textbook Audio Material Type: Audio -CD Language: Hebrew Collection: Language Resource Center

Hebrew Keyboard Cover

Volume Number: 1 Barcode: 58964773 Material Type: Equipment Language: Hebrew Collection: Language Resource Center

Hebrew Keyboard Cover

Volume Number: 2 Barcode: 58964774 Material Type: Equipment Language: Hebrew Collection: Language Resource Center

Hebrew Lecture - Maya Tavori

cover image Barcode: 58963720 Call Number: DL-NH05 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 51 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by LRC Description: An Israeli Lawyer, Maya Tavori, gives an in-class lecture on the Israeli state and its democratic institutions. Collection: Language Resource Center

Hebrew Travel Pack

Barcode: 58954795 Call Number: IL-HEB Ber Material Type: Language Kit Language: Hebrew Description: Book + 1 CD Collection: Language Resource Center

Hochmat HaBeigale = Wisdom of the Pretzel

cover image Barcode: 58945475 Call Number: V-HEB 073 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 101 min. System Requirements: PAL, Region 2 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Ilan Heiner Description: The main character, Golan, is a 20 something year old student nearing the end of his college studies, and is having a hard time deciding about his future. He sees no point in getting a job, finding a wife or stopping the endless round of parties. After a blind date with his best friend's quirky sister, he begins to question his life. Golan then begins a personal journey that has him challenge everything he has ever believed, about himself, about love and about the nature of life in ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hunger

Volume Number: part 1 Barcode: 58947249 Call Number: V-HEB 093A Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 139 min. System Requirements: PAL Language: Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Spanish Description: The title of the project is “hunger”: the obligation of every human being to recognize and acknowledge the existence of hunger, the right of victims of hunger to demand and seek a solution as his or her basic human right. The films of this project are about hunger in its physical and concrete sense, but also about its political aspects as well as its conceptual and metaphysical manifestations. When examining the issue of hunger it’s impossible to avoid the existential experience of “the ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Hunger

Volume Number: part 2 Barcode: 58947252 Call Number: V-HEB 093B Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 139 min. System Requirements: PAL Language: Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian, Spanish Description: The title of the project is “hunger”: the obligation of every human being to recognize and acknowledge the existence of hunger, the right of victims of hunger to demand and seek a solution as his or her basic human right. The films of this project are about hunger in its physical and concrete sense, but also about its political aspects as well as its conceptual and metaphysical manifestations. When examining the issue of hunger it’s impossible to avoid the existential experience of “the ... Collection: Language Resource Center

In Satmar Custody

cover image Barcode: 58948028 Call Number: V-HEB 107 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 70 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew, English Creator: Directed by Nitzan Gilady Description: In Satmar Custody reveals the story of the Jaradi's, a Jewish Yemenite family, one of many that were brought from Yemen to the US (Monroe, NY) by the Ultra orthodox Satmar Community which operates a propaganda machine against the immigration to Israel. The story exposes a deep cultural gap between the Yemenite families and the Yiddish Satmar Community that became distractive and tragic to families who have traveled thousands of miles to an entirely different planet of their own, with ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Inner Tour Through Israel in 7 chapters

cover image Barcode: 58947612 Call Number: V-HEB 097 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 98 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew, English, Arabic Creator: Directed by Ra'anan Alexandrowics Description: Controversially divisive in the Israeli press for its sympathetic portrayal of Palestinian citizens, THE INNER TOUR (Official selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2002) is a fascinating and humanistic portrait of ordinary people caught up in one of the most emotionally painful and seemingly intractable national conflicts of our time. Just months before the second Intifada (uprising) began in 2000, Israeli director Ra’anan Alexandrowicz (with his Israeli and Palestinian co-producers) filmed a ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Iraq n' roll

cover image Barcode: 58964392 Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 52 min. Language: Hebrew AND Arabic Creator: Directed by Gili Gaon Description: Salah and Daud Al-kweiti, Jewish musicians in Iraq in the 1930's, are considered the creators of modern Iraqi music, and two of the greatest Arab musicians in history. In the 1950's they immigrated to Israel, where no one paid attention to their music. They forbid their family members to become musicians lest they experience the same pain. Despite this, Daud's grandson, Dudu Tassa is a leading performer in today's Israeli Rock n' Roll scene. Releasing an album which ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Israland

cover image Barcode: 58947050 Call Number: L-NH62 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 58 min. Language: Hebrew Creator: Eyal Sivan Description: During the first Gulf war, 10 km from Tel-Aviv as bombs are dropping on the city, a Luna park called Israland is being built. The film tells the story of a few of the characters taking part in the construction of the site : an Israeli mechanical digger driver, two Palestinian workmen, a German architect and sculptor and a Jewish real estate developer from Georgia. Their only common denominator is their work : the building of the Luna park where hatred is omnipresent. The Israeli society, a ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Itgaber, He Will Overcome

cover image Barcode: 58947051 Call Number: L-NH63 Material Type: Video -VHS Time: 170 min. System Requirements: PAL Language: Hebrew Creator: Eyal Sivan Description: A filmed essay about an uncompromising man. Using vocabulary that can be understood by everyone, Yeshayahou Leibowitz, philosopher and scientist, shares with us his analysis of what makes Man : will, freedom, man’s choices, what is imposed upon him and how, by “triumphing over his own self”, he can escape the heaviness of this world. Spiritual leader of the Israeli soldiers who refuse to carry out their military national service in the Occupied Territories, Prof Leibowitz, who has always ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Izkor, Slaves to Memory

cover image Barcode: 58947052 Call Number: V-HEB 091 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 97 min. System Requirements: PAL Language: Hebrew Creator: Directed by Eyal Sivan Description: IZKOR, is a portrait of the Israeli society that has never been shown before, thirty days in the life of a state that lives to the rhythm of its memory. This award-winning film puts forward a passionate and severe analysis of the Hebrew state. “IZKOR,” means "remember" in Hebrew and this film looks in depth at this imperative that is imposed on the children of Israel. In Israel during the month of April feast days and celebrations take place one after another. School children of ... Collection: Language Resource Center

Jericho's Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land

cover image Barcode: 58949803 Call Number: V-HEB 119 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 75 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Hebrew, English Creator: Directed by Liz Nord Description: In this critically acclaimed documentary, rebellious Israeli youth take up arms of punk rock, loud guitars, and mohawks in the most politically charged area of the world. Through interviews, verite scenes and live musical footage, we see how these well-spoken and outspoken kids deal with life in their explosive, ancient region. Looking at the present situation in israel through the eyes of punk rockers is an uncommon vantage point, but the voices of these diverse young people illuminate the ... Collection: Language Resource Center