Films, photographs and interviews depict Jewish life in the "shtetls" of Eastern Europe.
Elliott Gould narrates this affectionate look at life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. "It's unreal that all this could have just disappeared," says Polish native Mariem Adler Stok, one of the seniors whose memories of this "Yiddish world" give this documentary its life. The hour traces Jewish history in Europe and explores Jews' focus on education, their religious customs, clothing, food, music and theater.
Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery
2012 · Movie
The Auschwitz Trial
2013 · Movie
Promises
2001 · Movie
Religulous
2008 · Movie
Besa: The Promise
2012 · Movie
Defamation
2009 · Movie
Chaja & Mimi
2013 · Movie
Marching to Zion
2015 · Movie
The Great Yiddish Love
2002 · Movie
JA
2020 · Movie
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
2000 · Movie
The Paper Brigade
2018 · Movie
We Were Here
2011 · Movie
Shanghai Ghetto
2002 · Movie
The Port of Last Resort
1998 · Movie
Welcome to Yiddishland
2024 · Movie
The Gatekeepers
2012 · Movie
The Jewish Experience, from Basavilbaso to New Amsterdam
2019 · Movie
The Fantastic Mr Feynman
2013 · Movie
Ganz: How I Lost My Beetle
2019 · Movie
