MARCH 11 - 19, 2000

Reading List

Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2000 Reading List

The American Jewish Committee and Tree of Life Judaica and Books encourage you to further explore the issues and histories addressed though the magic of film at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival 2000.  Below is a list of most films from our Fifth Anniversary lineup with associated publications available through either the AJC or Tree of Life. View, Enjoy, Savor, Discuss!

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FILM: After The End of The World

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Beyond Hitler's Grasp: The Heroic Rescue of Bulgaria's Jews by Michael Bar-Zohar (1998)

·         Escape Through the Balkans: The Autobiography of Irene Grunbaum by Irene Grunbaum & Katherine Morris (1999)

·         From Sofia to Jaffa: The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel (Jewish Folklore and Anthropology) by Guy Haskell (1994)

·         One People: The Story of the Eastern Jews by Devorah Cohen & Menachem Hacohen (1986)

·         Sephardi Jewry: A History of the Judeo-Spanish Community, 15^th to 20^th Centuries (Jewish Communities in the Modern World) by Esther Benbassa & Aron Rodrigue (1999)

·         Sephardi Life in Southeastern Europe: The Autobiography and Journal of Gabriel Arie 1863-1939 by Gabriel Arie, Aron Rodrigue & Esther Benbassa (1998)

Available through the American Jewish Committee. Ordering info at top of page.

·         The Restitution of Jewish Property in Central and Eastern Europe by Marilyn Henry (1997, $2.00)

FILM: Anne Frank’s Diary (Animated)

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page. Some titles will be available at Loews Cineplex City Centre Theatre Lobby before and after the film screening.

·         Anne Frank: The Biography by Melissa Muller (1999)

·         Anne Frank: A Hidden Life by Miriam Pressler (2000)

·         Anne Frank: Reflection on Her Life and Legacy by Hyman Enzer & Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer (editors) (2000)

·         Film based on: Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition by Anne Frank, Otto Frank & Miriam Pressler (editors) (1997)

·         The Memories of Anne Frank: Reflections of a Childhood Friend by Alison Gold (1999)

·         Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank: An In-Depth Resource for Learning About the Holocaust Through the Writings of Anne Frank  by Susan Moger (1999)

·         Understanding Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources and Historical Documents by Hedda Rosner Kopf (1997)

FILM:  Antiracist

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Anti-Racism  by Alastair Bonnett (editor) (2000)

·         Devil's Arithmetic (young adult fiction) by Jane Yolen (1990)

·         If I Should Die Before I Wake (young adult fiction) by Han Nolan (1996)

·         Multicultural Education as Social Activism (Suny Series, the Social Context of Education) by Christine Sleeter (1996)

·         Teaching/ Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach by Louise Derman-Sparks, Carol Phillips & Asa Hilliard (1997)

Available through the American Jewish Committee. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Anti-Semitism in Europe Since the Holocaust by Robert S. Wistrich (1993, $2.50)

·         Anti-Semitism World Report. An annual country-by-country compendium of trends of global anti-Semitism ($23.00)

·         Approaches to Anti-Semitism: Context and Curriculum by Michael Brown (editor) (1994, $19.75)

·         Current Austrian Attitudes Toward Jews and the Holocaust  by Jennifer Golub and Renae Cohen (1995, $2.50)

·         Current German Attitudes Towards Jews and Other Minorities by Jennifer Golub (1994, $2.50)

·         Patterns of Prejudice: A quarterly journal on anti-Semitism and discrimination. (Annual subscription, $30.00)

·         Right Wing Extremism in Western Europe by Ruth Ellen Gruber. (1994, $2.00)

·         Skinheads: Who They Are & What to Do When They Come to Town by Kenneth S. Stern (1990, $1.00)

FILM:  Children of Chabannes

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Courage to Care: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust by Carol Rittner & Sondra Myers (1989)

·         French Children of the Holocaust: A Memorial by Serge Klarsfeld, Susan Cohen & Edward Epstein (1996)

·         Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti (1999)

·         Jewish Memoirs by Lucette Valensi & Nathan Wachtel (1991)

·         Lucien's Story by Aleksandra Kroh, Austryn Wainhouse, Lucien Duckstein (1996)

·         Partisans of Vilna: Songs of WWII Jewish Resistance  (music)

·         Rescue as Resistance: How Jewish Organizations Fought the Holocaust in France  by Lucien Lazare & Jeffrey Green (1996)

·         Songs of Remembrance (music)

·         Vichy France and the Jews by Michaewl Marrus & Robert Paxton (1995)

·         Writing the Book of Esther by Henri Raczymow & Dori Katz (1995)

Available through the American Jewish Committee. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Anti-Semitism in France: Recent Trends by Jennifer Golub (1994, $2.50)

·         The Changing Shape of Holocaust Memory by James E. Young (1995, $4.95)

FILM:  Delta Jews

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Driving Miss Daisy (play) by Alfred Uhry (1988)

·         Heart of a Wife: The Diary of a Southern Jewish Woman  by Helen Ate & Marcus Rosenbaum (1998)

·         Jew Store  by Stella Suberman (1998)

·         Jews in Early Mississippi  by Leo Turitz (1995)

·         Last Night of Ballyhoo (play) by Alfred Uhry (1997)

·         Peddler's Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi by Edward Cohen (1999)

·         Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South by Eli Evans (1997)

·         Right to sing the Blues: African Americans, Jews, and American Popular Song by Jeffrey Melnick (1999)

·         Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign Against the Jews by Jack Nelson (1996)

FILM: Emporte Moi (Set Me Free)

Available through the American Jewish Committee. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Approaches to Intermarriage: Areas of Consensus by Avis Miller, Janet Marder & Steven Bayme (1993, $1.50)

·         Children of Intermarriage: A Study in Patterns of Identification and Family Life by Egon Mayer (1983, $2.50)

FILM: Florentene II

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our Own True Stories by Laurel Holliday (editor) (1999)

·         In Search of Identity: Jewish Aspects in Israeli Culture (Israeli history, politics, and society) by Dan Urian & Efraim Karsh (editors)  (1998)

·         Memories of Our Future: Selected Essays 1982-1999 (Israeli culture) by Ammiel Alcalay (1999)

·         Limor Livnat: The Leading Lady in Israeli Politics Speaks Her Mind by Limor Livnat (1999)

·         Lesbiot: Israeli Lesbians Talk About Sexuality, Feminism, Judaism and Their Lives (Cassel Women on Women) by Tracy Moore (editor) (1999)

·         Keys to the Garden: New Israeli Writing  by Ammiel Alcalay (editor) (1996)

Available through the American Jewish Committee. Ordering info at top of page.

·         The Condition of Jewish Peoplehood: A Symposium One Year After the Rabin Assassination (1997, $5.00)

·         Rebuilding Jewish Peoplehood: Where Do We Go from Here? A Symposium in the Wake of the Rabin Assassination.  Thirty-one Jewish communal leaders discuss the implications of the Rabin assassination for the unity of the Jewish people (1996, $5.00)

·         Twentysomething and Jewish: Personal Reflections on Jewish Identity by Aryeh Meir (editor) (1994, $5.00)

FILM: From Swastika to Jim Crow

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page. Some titles will be available at Loews Cineplex City Centre Theatre Lobby before and after the film screening.

·         Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews by Jack Salzman, Adina Back & Gretchen Sorin (1992)

·         Film based on:  From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb (1993)

·         Heeding the Call: Jewish Voices in America's Civil Rights Struggle by Norman Finkelstein (1997)

·         In the Almost Promised Land: American Jews and Blacks, 1915-1935 by Hasia Diner (1995)

·         Jews & Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion, and Culture in America by Michael Lerner & Cornel West (1996)

·         Mutual Reflections: Jews and Blacks in American Art by Milly Heyd (1999)

·         Strangers and Neighbors: Relations Between Blacks and Jews in the United States by Maurianne Adams & John Bracey  (1999)

·         Struggles in the Promised Land: Towards a History of Black-Jewish Relations in the United States by Jack Salzman & Cornel West (1997)

Available through the American Jewish Committee. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Anti-Semitism in Contemporary America by Tow W. Smith (1994, $2.50)

·         Anti-Semitism in Europe Since the Holocaust by Robert S. Wistrich (1993, $2.50)

·         Approaches to Anti-Semitism: Context and Curriculum by Michael Brown (editor) (1994, $19.75)

·         Bigotry on Campus  by Kenneth Stern (AJC’s specialist on Anti-Semitism and extremism) (1990, $3.50)

·         CommonQuest:The Magazine of Black-Jewish Relations. Magazine published jointly, three times a year, by the American Jewish Committee and Howard University. (Annual subscription: $14.00)

·         Hate and the Internet by Kenneth Stern (AJC’s specialist on anti-Semitism and extremism) (1999)

·         Understanding the Summer of Hate by Kenneth Stern (AJC’s specialist on anti-Semitism and extremism) (1999)

FILM: GOD@heaven

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         God@heaven videos for sale ($39.95)

FILM:  Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page. Some titles will be available at Loews Cineplex City Centre Theatre Lobby before and after the film screening.

·         50 Greatest Jewish Movies: A Critics Ranking of the Very Best by Kathryn Bernheimer (1998)

·         American Jewish Filmmakers: The Traditions and Trends by David Dresser & Lester Friedman (1993)

·         Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot  by Michael Rogin (1998)

·         Bridges of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds by J. Hoberman (1995)

·         Film based on: Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler (1989)

·         Guide to Jewish Films on Video by Larry Anldewics (KTAV, 2000)

·         Jewish Film Directory: A Guide to More Than 1200 Films of Jewish Interest from 32 Countries over 85 Years by Mathew Stevens (1992)

·         Jewish Image in American Film by Lester Friedman (1987)

·         Visions, Images & Dreams: Yiddish Film Past and Present by Eric A. Goldman (2000)

FILM:  Kadosh

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Defenders of Faith: Inside Ultra-Orthodox Jewry by Samuel Heilman (2000)

·         Distant Sisters: The Women I Left Behind by Yehudit Rotem, Shira Atik & Judith Rotem (1997)

·         Romance Reader by Pearl Abraham (1996)

·         Rachel's Daughters: Newly Orthodox Jewish Women by Debra Kaufman (1991)

·         River Midnight by Lilian Nattel (1999)

·         Straight Talk: My Dilemma As an Orthodox Jewish Woman by Sally Berkovic (1999)

·         Women, Jewish Law and Modernity: New Opportunities in a Post-Feminist Age by Joel Wolowelsky (1997)

Available through the American Jewish Committee. Ordering info at top of page.

·         The Women's Movement in Israel by Rochelle Furstenberg. (1994, $2.50)

·         The Universal Horizon of Biblical Particularism by Jon D. Levenson (1985, $2.50)

FILM:  L.A. Mohel

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Bris Milah: Circumcision by Paysach Kroohn (1999)

·         Jewish Baby Handbook: A Guide for Expectant Parents by Douglas Weber (1990)

·         New Jewish Baby Book: Names, Ceremonies, Customs, a Guide For Today's Families by Anita Diamant (1994)

·         Time to Be Born: Customs and Folklore of the Jewish Birth by Michele Klein (1998)

FILM:  The Life & Times of Hank Greenberg

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Ellis Island to Ebbets Field: Sport and the American Jewish Experience by Peter Levine (1993)

·         Great Jews in Sports by Robert Slater (1992)

·         Hank Greenberg: Hall-Of-Fame Slugger by Ira Berkow & Mick Ellison (1991)

·         Koufax Dilemma (young adult fiction) by Steven Schur & Meryl Treatner (1997)

·         Sports and the American Jew by Steven Riess (1998)

·         When Boxing Was a Jewish Sport by Allen Bodner (1997)

FILM: Menelik: Black Jewish Prince

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Ethiopian Exodus by Alisa Poskanzer (2000)

·         From Falasha to Freedom: An Ethiopian Jew's Journey to Jerusalem by Shemuel Yilmah (1998)

·         Hyena People: Ethiopian Jews in Christina Ethiopia by Hagar Salamon (1999)

·         Moon is Bread (fiction) by Noomi Shemuel (1999)

·         On the Wings of Eagles: An Ethiopian Child's Story by Jeffrey Schrier (1998)

·         Shalom, Everybody Everywhere (music from Jews in Uganda)

·         Shlomo Gronich & Sheba Choir (music)

·         Storytellers Beads (young adult fiction) by Janie Kurtz (1998)

·         Surviving Salvation: The Ethiopian Jewish Family in Transition by Dr. Ruth Westheimer & Dr. Steven Kaplan (1993)

FILM:  Meschugge: The Giraffe

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Accidental Murder: An Avram Cohen Mystery by Robert Rosenberg (1999)

·         Gates of Eden by Ethan Cohen (1999)

·         Murder Duet: A Musical Case by Batyal Goor, Batya Gur & Dalya Bilu (1999)

·         Mystery Midrash: An Anthology of Jewish Mystery & Detective Fiction  by Lawerence Raphael (1999)

·         Served Cold (West Coast Crime) by Ed Goldberg (1999)

FILM: Pastry Pain & Politics

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture by Ammiel Alcalay (1992)

·         Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land by Meron Benvenisti (1995)

·         Struggle for Peace: Israelis and Palestinians by Elizabeth Fernea, Mary Hocking & H.L. Taylor (1992)

·         Thirteenth Hour (fiction) by Barbara Sofer (1997)

·         Voices from a 'Promised Land': Palestinian and Israeli Peace Activists Speak Their Hearts by Penny Rosenwasser (1992)

FILM:  The Personals

Available at Tree of Life Judaica and Books. Ordering info at top of page.

·         Adventures of Mona Pinsky (fiction) by Harriet Ziskin (1995)

·         Fax Me a Bagel: A Ruby, the Rabbi's Wife Mystery (fiction) by Sharon Kahn (1998)

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