LibGuides: Jewish Studies: Suggested Titles by Subject

Film

Antisemitism

The longest hatred

Traces anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations in antiquity to the recent ominous outbreaks in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere. Also takes a humanistic look at relations between Arabs and Israelis. DS145 .L663 1993

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Culture/Folklore

The Dybbuk = Der Dibu·k

The classic film by Michal Waszynski. Years after their parents had made a pledge that they would marry, a young couple meet and fall in love. The father of the young man had long before perished and the young woman's father, forgetting his vow, keeps the two apart. The film concerns unfulfilled love, broken promises, and the supernatural, as the persona of the youth enters his beloved's body and possesses her. PN1997 .D92 1991

The Golem: how he came into the world. Restored authorized ed. Wegener, Paul Hermann, 1874-1948. Classic film of the story of the Golem, an earthen figure brought to life by Rabbi Judah of Prague to protect the Jewish community and the havoc that follows. PN1997 .G639 2002

Jewish law: belief and practice. Disc 1: Jewish law: at work -- Disc 2: Jewish law: at home -- Disc 3: Jewish law: in the community. Provides an in-depth look at the observation of Orthodox Jewish law in all aspects of daily life through a community of rabbis and their families. BM700 .J49 2006

Holocaust

Schindler's list

The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust. Based on the book by Thomas Keneally. PN1997 .S314 1994 v.1

Shoah: a film.

Shoah ("annihilation" in Hebrew) consists of extensive interviews obtained by Clause Lanzmann over a ten-year period with people who participated in the Holocaust as victims, bystanders, persecutors, or concentration camp survivors. Shows present-day views of some of the concentration camps. D810.J4 S48 1985 (Note: 10 hours long)

Jews in America

Jews, movies, Hollywoodism and the American dream

Through the use of archival footage (chiefly black and white, both documentary and dramatic), the history of motion picture production in Hollywood is traced and documented, and how the Eastern European Jewish immigrants (all men) who founded and ran the major motion picture studios that gave Hollywood its worldwide fame and produced many of the all-time motion picture classics of this century left their lasting influence on American motion picture production. PN1993.5 .U65 J48 1998

At home on the range: Jewish life in Texas: beyond the big cities. KEDT-TV (Television station: Corpus Christi, Tex.)

Explores the Jewish communities which developed in the small towns and rural areas of Texas. F395 .J5 A7 1996

Shalom y'all: the documentary film

Director Brian Bain travels the South discovering what it means to be both Southern and Jewish. Interviewees include football announcer Jack Cristil, poet and historian Eli Evans, musician and author Kinky Friedman, and Bain's own 99 year-old grandfather. Bain also interviews Andrew Young who discusses the roll Jews played in the civil rights movement. F220 .J5 S45 2002

Hester Street

Based on a story by Abraham Cahan, editor of the largest Yiddish daily newspaper in America, it deals with the turn-of-the-century massive immigration of Eastern European Jews and their struggles to deal with America. PN1997 .H48 1990

West of Hester Street. producers, directors, writers, Cynthia and Allen Mondell. Media Projects Incorporated.

Presents a historical documentary about Jewish immigration to America through the port of Galveston, Tex., during the early 1900s. Interweaves re-creations of specific events with the personal narrative of one immigrant. F395.J5 W47 1983

Jewish Communities Across the World

Jewish communities of Kaifeng and San‘a

These two films explore the exotic Jewish communities of Kaifeng, China and San‘a, Yemen. The first describes the origin and growth of the ancient Jewish community in China. The second explores the lifestyles of the Jews of San‘a up to and including their immigration to Israel after 1948. DS135 .C5 J47 1995

The Dhimmis: to be a Jew in Arab lands

Details the centuries of persecution endured by Jews living in Arab lands. Using rare film footage, photographs, maps and interviews, it presents a country by country account of Jewish life that flourished in the midst of ongoing conflict. DS135 .A68 D45 1987

Operation Moses

Documents Operation Moses, the airlifting of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. Presents views of Ethiopian Jewish life and records the ravaging effects of the famine which, together with government persecution, forced the Jewish community to flee their homes. DS135 .E75 O64 1987

Books

Antisemitism

Flannery, Edward H. The Anguish of the Jews: Twenty-three Centuries of Antisemitism. DS145 .F6 1985

Kaufman, Debra R. From the Protocols of the elders of Zion to Holocaust denial trials: challenging the media, the law and the academy. D804.355 .F76 2007

Nirenberg, David Anti-Judaism the Western Tradition. DS146 .E85 N57 2013

Sivan, Emmanuel. Islamic Fundamentalism and Anti-Semitism. BP173 .J8 S59 1985

Beliefs/Ethics/Philosophy/Theology

Blech, Benjamin. Understanding Judaism: the basics of deed and creed. BM520.7 .B58 1991

Silver, Abba Hillel, 1893-1963. Where Judaism differed: an inquiry into the distinctiveness of Judaism. BM560 .S5

Fackenheim, Emil L. Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy. B5800 .F33 1996

Rosen, Fred. Biomedical Ethics and Jewish Law. BM538 .H43 R68 2001

History

Graetz, Heinrich. History of the Jews. DS123 .G73 1891

Grayzel, Solomon. A history of the Jews: from the Babylonian exile to the present. [2d ed.] DS118 .G875 1968

Holocaust

Hilberg, Raul. The destruction of the European Jews. 3rd ed. D804.3 .H548 2003 (3 v.)

Klempner, Mark. The heart has reasons: Holocaust rescuers and their stories of courage. D804.65 .K55 2006

Israel & Zionism

Bregman, Ahron. A history of Israel. DS125 .B74 2003

Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge atlas of the Arab-Israeli conflict. 7th ed. G2236 .S1 G52 2002

Jews in Antiquity

Avi-Yonah, Michael. The Jews under Roman and Byzantine rule: a political history of Palestine from the Bar Kokhba War to the Arab conquest. DS123.5 .A943 1984

Schäfer, Peter. The history of the Jews in the Greco-Roman world. Rev. ed. with correction. DS122 .S2813 2003

Jews in Arab and Muslim Lands

Haddad, Heskel M. Jews of Arab and Islamic countries: history, problems, solutions. DS135 .A68 H3313 1984

Kohen, Elli. History of the Turkish Jews and Sephardim: memories of a past golden age. DS135 .T8 K64 2007

Jews in Europe

Haumann, Heiko. A history of East European Jews. DS135 .E8 H3813 2002

Pinkus, Benjamin. The Jews of the Soviet Union: the history of a national minority. DS135.R92 P55 1988

Weinryb, Bernard Dov. The Jews of Poland: a social and economic history of the Jewish community in Poland from 1100 to 1800. DS135.P6 W38 1973

Jews in the Americas

Ferris, Marcie Cohen. Jewish roots in southern soil: a new history. F220 .J5 J46 2006

Hertzberg, Arthur. The Jews in America: four centuries of an uneasy encounter: a history. E184 .J5 H566 1997

Howe, Irving. The World of our fathers. F128.9 .J5 H6 1983

Libo, Kenneth. We lived there, too: in their own words and pictures--pioneer Jews and the westward movement of America, 1630-1930. F596.3 .J5 L53 1984

Jewish Communities Across the World

Avni, Haim. Argentina & the Jews: a history of Jewish immigration F3021.J5 A94613 1991

Ruggiero, Kristin. The Jewish diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean: fragments of memory. F1419 .J4 J46 2005

Ahroni, Reuben. The Jews of the British Crown Colony of Aden: history, culture, and ethnic relations. DS135.Y4 A44 1994

Kessler, David (David Francis). The Falashas: a short history of the Ethiopian Jews. [3rd rev. ed.] DS135 .E75 .K47 1996

Segal, J. B. A history of the Jews of Cochin. (India) DS135.I62 C675 1993

Xu, Xin. The Jews of Kaifeng, China: history, culture, and religion. DS135 .C5 X92 2003

Kabbalah/Mysticism

Idel, Moshe. Kabbahlah: New Perspectives BM526 .L338 1988

Scholem, Gershom. Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. BM723 .S35 1954

Wexelman, David M. Kabbalah: The Splendor of Judaism. BM700 .W48 2000

Music/Art

Rubin, Emanuel. Music in Jewish history and culture. ML3776 .R75 2006

Olin, Margaret Rose. The nation without art: examining modern discourses on Jewish art. N7415 .O45 2001

Relations with Christianity and Islam

Aitken, J. K. Challenges in Jewish-Christian relations. BM535 .C43 2006

Maccoby, Hyam. Judaism on trial: Jewish-Christian disputations in the Middle Ages. BM590 .A1 J83 1993

Rothschild, Fritz A. Jewish perspectives on Christianity: Leo Baeck, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Will Herberg, and Abraham J. Heschel. BM535 .J465 1990

Pratt, Douglas. The challenge of Islam: encounters in interfaith dialogue. BP171 .P74 2005

Women

Adler, Rachel. Engendering Judaism: an inclusive theology and ethics. BM729 .W6 A29 1998

Hartman, Tova. Feminism encounters traditional Judaism: resistance and accommodation. BM729 .W6 H375 2007

Kaufman, Michael. The woman in Jewish law and tradition. BM729.W6 K38 1993