JKM Library: Jewish Studies: Film, Documentaries &amp; Images

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Center for Jewish Art

USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W Yiddish with New English subtitles Directed by Joseph Seiden

Portrait of Reinhold Beilinski, Paris, circa 1940

The Choral Synagogue in Samara, arc. Z. Kleinerman, 1903–08. Window at the westen facade. Photo: Vladimir Levin.

Handwritten death certificate for Lilly Weilheimer decorated with a Jewish star and written in the Gurs internment camp.

JKM Library Video Resources

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Multidisciplinary
More than 79,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Materials include documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations and raw footage. Note: Sony Pictures Classics films are not accessible to users outside of the United States. Detailed information available here.

National Center for Jewish Film
NCJF exclusively owns the largest collection of Jewish content film in the world, outside of Israel. The Center's 15,000 reels of feature films, documentaries, newsreels, home movies and institutional films date from 1903 to the present.
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
The Stephen Spielberg Jewish Film Archive is the largest collection of Jewish documentary films in the world. The archive stores over 18,000 titles from different periods of history, from the time of the Ottoman Empire to this day. The archive contains titles in almost every visual format; this includes film, different types of video and digital files.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Films
Films in the collection of the United States Holocaust Museum

Center for Jewish Art - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Center for Jewish Art (CJA) is a research institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, devoted to the documentation and research of Jewish visual culture. Established in 1979, it documented and researched objects of Jewish art in ca. 800 museums, libraries, private collections and synagogues in 41 countries. Today, the Center's archives and collections constitute the largest and most comprehensive body of information on Jewish art in existence.
Yad Vashem Photo Collections
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Images
Images in the collection of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum