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The Brodsky Library has an extensive dvd and video library of over 450 titles. The library also serves as one of the United States locations for the Jewish Heritage Video Collection.  For more information about videos, dvds or the JHVC films and curriculum call the library at (314) 442-3720 or email.

Titles can also be searched in our online catalog.

Rental fee per title for all videos or dvds is $1.00 a day or $3.00 a week or the weekend special, Friday to Monday at $1.00 per title.

For a list of films for children click here.

For a list of films for adults click here.

For more information about the Jewish Heritage Video Collection click here.           

Jewish Heritage Video Collection

The Jewish Heritage Video Collection, a project of the Jewish Media Fund, is a video library which includes more than 200 outstanding features and documentaries, television and children's programs with significant Jewish content. The JHVC also has deveoped a series of stimulaing courses, complete with leader's guides, perfect for use with groups.

Films by subject:

Children : An American Tail * The Animated Haggadah ▪* Benjamin and the Miracle of Hanukah ▪* Dear Kitty ▪ * Esther ▪ Fievel Goes West ▪ * Fliegel's Flight ▪ * Lights: A Hanukah Video ▪ * Lovely Butterfly: Chanukah ▪ * The Mitzvah Machine ▪ Molly's Pilgrim ▪ * One-Minute Bible Stories (Old Testament) ▪ * The Sabbath Kit ▪ * The Secret in Bubbe's Attic ▪ * Shalom Sesame ▪ * Shirim K'tanim

Comedy : Americaner Shadchen *▪ Biloxi Blues *▪ Brighton Beach Memoirs ▪* Genghis Cohn ▪* The Great Dictator ▪* My Favorite Year *▪ Northern Exposure, The Pilot *▪ To Be or Not To Be

Holocaust : An Act of Faith *▪ The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank *▪ Au Revoir Les Enfants ▪* The Boat is Full ▪* Border Street ▪* Camera of My Family ▪* Danzig, 1939 ▪* The Devil is a Gentlemen *▪ The Diary of Anne Frank *▪ Enemies, A Love Story *▪ Europa Europa ▪* Genocide ▪* Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg ▪* Judgment at Nuremberg ▪* Kitty: A Return to Auschwitz *▪ Lodz Ghetto *▪ Music Box *▪ Night and Fog ▪* Now.After All These Years *▪ The Oppermanns *▪ A Painful Reminder *▪ Partisans of Vilna *▪ The Pawnbroker ▪* Schindler *▪ Schindler's List ▪* Shoah *▪ The Shop on Main Street *▪ So Many Miracles *▪ Swing Kids *▪ Terezin Diary ▪* Transport from Paradise *▪ Trial at Nuremberg ▪* The Wannsee Conference ▪ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ▪* Weapons of the Spirit *▪ Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? ▪* Witnesses to the Holocaust: The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

International Jewry :   At the Crossroads: Jews in Eastern Europe Today *▪ Commissar * ▪ East and West *▪ Fiddler on the Roof * Get Thee Out! ▪* Homage to Chagall: The Colors of Love *▪ Image Before My Eyes *▪ The Last Marranos *▪ Mirele Efros *▪ Operation Moses *▪ Prisoner of Honor *▪ Routes of Exile: A Moroccan Jewish Odyssey *▪ Tevye

Israel : ▪ Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land ▪* Black to the Promised Land *▪ Cast a Giant Shadow *▪ Cup Final ▪* Fictitious Marriage ▪* Golda Meir *▪ Hill 24 Doesn't Answer *▪ House on Chelouche Street ▪* How Israel Won the War ▪ Israel: Nation is Born ▪* The Israelis ▪* Late Summer Blues *▪ Sadat in Israel ▪* Sallah *▪ See It Now: Egypt-Israel ▪* Siege *▪ A Wall in Jerusalem *▪ A Woman Called Golda *▪ The Wooden Gun

Jewish Experience in America :  The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz *▪ The Apprenticeship of Mordecai Richler ▪ Avalon ▪* Crimes and Misdemeanors *▪ Crossfire *▪ Crossing Delancey *▪ Daniel ▪* The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans *▪ Free Voice of Labor: The Jewish Anarchists *▪ Hester Street *▪ His People ▪* Homicide *▪ The Imported Bridegroom *▪ Isaac in America *▪ Marjorie Morningstar ▪* The Miracle of Intervale Avenue * Next Stop, Greenwich Village ▪ Number our Days *▪ The Purple Heart *▪ A Stranger Among Us *▪ Street Scene *▪ Sweet Lorraine

Religion and Identity : The Disputation *▪ The Eighth Day *▪ Great Figures of the Bible *▪ Half the Kingdom ▪* Heritage: Civilization of the Jews with Abba Eban *▪ In Her Own Time *▪ Intermarriage: When Love Meets Tradition *▪ The Journey *▪ A Jumpin ' Night in the Garden of Eden *▪ The Longest Hatred *▪ Ritual: Three Portraits of Jewish Life *▪ Saying Kaddish ▪* The Talmud and the Scholar

Courses:
* American Jewish Directors: Three Visions of the American Jewish Experience
* Elie Wiesel's Great Figures of the Bible
* Growing-Up Stories: Coming of Age in the Media and in Literatures
* The Holocaust: A Course for Adolescents
* The Jewish Image in American Film: A Century of Jewish Characters and Themes
* More Than Chemistry: The Romantic Choices of American Jews
* Real Americans: The Evolving Identities of American Jews
* Visions of Israel: Israeli Filmmakers and Images of the Jewish State
* Yiddish Culture: Between the Old World and the New

Contact the Brodsky Library for more information on obtaining the videos and course materials.