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The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Choice in a Changing World
Robert H. Mnookin - PublicAffairs
Format: Hardcover
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Who should count as Jewish in America? What should be the relationship of American Jews to Israel? Can the American Jewish community collectively sustain and pass on to the next generation a sufficient sense of Jewish identity? Jews in America are in a period of unprecedented status and impact,... |
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Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes from a Modern Mensch
Jake Cohen
Format: Hardcover
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When you think of Jewish food, a few classics come to mind: chicken soup with matzo balls, challah, maybe a babka if you're feeling adventurous. But as food writer and nice Jewish boy Jake Cohen demonstrates in this stunning debut cookbook, Jewish food can be so much more. In Jew-ish,... |
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Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays: From Shofar to Seder
Cantor Matt Axelrod - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Paperback
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Recent years have seen an increased interest in Jewish life, its culture, and its celebrations. There are many new students of Judaism, often potential converts or members of interfaith families who are seeking to learn more about the religion and its rituals. Unfortunately, many of the existing... |
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Kosher Style: Over 100 Jewish Recipes for the Modern Cook
Amy Rosen - Appetite by Random House
Format: Hardcover
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For the bubbes and the balabustas, the keepers of Jewish kitchens and the enthusiastic neophytes, comes a cookbook that celebrates how many Jews eat today.In the Jewish culture, as in many others, bubbes, saftas and nanas are the matriarchs of the kitchen and thus the rulers... |
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Sababa: Fresh, Sunny Flavors From My Israeli Kitchen
Adeena Sussman - Avery
Format: Hardcover
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"The pages of this book ooze with [Adeena's] passion for the romance and beauty of Israeli cuisine. The recipes are soulful, elemental and stunningly delicious."--from the foreword by Michael SolomonovIn an Israeli cookbook as personal as it is global, Adeena Sussman celebrates... |
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As close to us as breathing
Elizabeth Poliner - Lee Boudreaux Books
Format: Print book
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A multigenerational family saga about the long-lasting reverberations of one tragic summer by "a wonderful talent [who] should be read widely" (Edward P. Jones) .In 1948, a small stretch of the Woodmont, Connecticut shoreline, affectionately named "Bagel Beach," has long... |
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Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family
Susan Katz Miller - Beacon Press; annotated edition edition
Format: Book
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A book on the growing number of interfaith families raising children in two religionsSusan Katz Miller grew up with a Jewish father and Christian mother, and was raised Jewish. Now in an interfaith marriage herself, she is one of the growing number of Americans who are boldly electing to raise... |
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How to Woo a Jew: The Modern Jewish Guide to Dating and Mating
Tamar Caspi - Seal Press
Format: Paperback
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Have you been single longer than the Jews wandered the desert?Or are you newly single and hoping to hook up with a hot MOT*?Either way, Tamar Caspi is on a mission to help you find your Chosen One... and who better to do that than the advice columnist from the massively popular dating site... |
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The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services
Jordan Lee Wagner
Format: Book
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In an effort to counter the confusion and isolation often experienced by a novice synagogue-goer, as well as by many who regularly attend synagogue, The Synagogue Survival Kit: A Guide to Understanding Jewish Religious Services offers introductions and instructions for all aspects |
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On Division: A Novel
Goldie Goldbloom - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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Through one woman's life at a moment of surprising change, the award-winning author Goldie Goldbloom tells a deeply affecting, morally insightful story and offers a rare look inside Brooklyn's Chasidic communityIn Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River... |
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Margot: a Novel
Jillian Cantor - Riverhead Trade
Format: Print book
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Anne Frank has long been a symbol of bravery and hope, but there were two sisters hidden in the annex, two young Jewish girls, one a cultural icon made famous by her published diary and the other, nearly forgotten.In the spring of 1959, The Diary of Anne Frank has just come to the silver... |
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All This Could Be Yours
Jami Attenberg - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew? "If I know why he is the way he is then... |
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The Memory Monster
Yishai Sarid - Restless Books
Format: Hardcover
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Written as a report to the chairman of Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, our unnamed narrator recounts his own undoing. Hired as a promising young historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland... |
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The Gallery of Vanished Husbands: A Novel
Natasha Solomons - Plume
Format: Paperback
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A stunning new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford London, 1958. It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she finds herself a living widow, invisible.... |
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Here I Am: A Novel
Jonathan Safran Foer - Farrar
Format: Print book
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A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close In the book of Genesis, when God calls out, "Abraham!" before ordering him to sacrifice his son, Isaac, Abraham responds, "Here I am."... |
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Goodnight Bubbala
Sheryl Haft - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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This festive parody reimagines a classic bedtime book as a lively Jewish family gathering complete with bubbies and zeydes, a dreidel, and a shmear on a bagel. Includes an exclusive latke recipe by Ina Garten, TV's Barefoot Contessa! In the small blue room there was a bubbala, and a little... |
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Jewish Holidays Cookbook
Jill Bloomfield - DK CHILDREN; Spi edition
Format: Spiral-bound
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The traditions and recipes of Judaism are celebrated in this beautiful modern cookbook geared toward kids and their families. Eleven Jewish holidays are discussed and accompanied by recipes for the ancient and modern foods traditionally served. Kids can lead the charge on braiding their... |
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Honey on the Page: A Treasury of Yiddish Children's Literature
Miriam Udel
Format: Hardcover
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While there has been a recent boom in Jewish literacy and learning within the US, few resources exist to enable American Jews to experience the rich primary sources of Yiddish culture. Stepping into this void, Miriam Udel has crafted an exquisite collection: Honey on the Page offers a feast... |
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Such a Library!: A Yiddish Folktale Re-Imagined
Jill Ross Nadler - Intergalactic Afikoman
Format: Hardcover
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An old Yiddish folktale in a modern-day library... with a magical librarian! Stevie craves quiet until Miss Understood, a magical librarian, wreaks havoc in this modern-day twist on an old Yiddish folktale. |
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A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night
Allison Ofanansky
Format: Hardcover
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It's Mimouna -- the Moroccan Jewish holiday that marks the end of Passover, and when blessings are given for a year of prosperity and good luck. Miriam wants to help her mother make the sweet moufleta pancakes they always eat at their Mimouna party, but after not eating doughy treats... |
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Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture
Jack Fischel
Format: Book
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This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field, highlight topics ranging from animation and comics to Hollywood and pop psychology. |
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Not Your All-American Girl
Shang - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover
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A multicultural story full of heart and hilarity about what it means to be all-American.Lauren and her best friend, Tara, have always done absolutely everything together. So when they don't have any classes together in sixth grade, it's disastrous. The solution? Trying out for the school... |
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Alef Is for Abba
Rebecca Kafka
Format: Paperback
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Kids learn twenty Hebrew words that start with alef, the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, in this unusual flip book. From one side mom (a word that starts with alef in Hebrew) goes through a typical day with her little one doing all things that start with alef, while from the |
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Esther's Gragger: A Toyshop Tale of Purim
Martha Seif Simpson - Wisdom Tales
Format: Hardcover
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Young Esther has earned a special gragger (whirling noisemaker) by delivering charitable gifts on Purim, a Jewish holiday based on the story of Queen Esther. Now she is ready to carry her gragger in the festive Purim parade! Like the legendary Queen, Esther displays courage and wit when... |
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I am Anne Frank
Brad Meltzer - Dial Books
Format: Hardcover
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The 22nd book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes tells the story of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl who documented her life while hiding from the Nazis during World War II.This engaging biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the... |
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Here Is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays
Lesle?a Newman; Susan Gal - Abrams Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Here is the world, ever changing and new,Spinning with joy at the wonder of you!Here Is the World is a joyous celebration of the Jewish holidays throughout the year for young children. Beginning with the weekly observance of Shabbat, readers join a family through the holidays and the corresponding... |
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Rabbi Benjamin's Buttons
Alice B. McGinty - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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As a sign of affection for their warm-hearted rabbi, the families of the congregation make Rabbi Benjamin a special holiday vest, complete with four shiny silver buttons. Throughout the year - Rosh Hashanah, Sukkot, Chanukah, and Passover - the rabbi celebrates with his congregation, unable... |
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Hidden: A Child's Story of the Holocaust
Loïc Dauvillier - First Second
Format: Hardcover
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In this gentle, poetic young graphic novel, Dounia, a grandmother, tells her granddaughter the story even her son has never heard: how, as a young Jewish girl in Paris, she was hidden away from the Nazis by a series of neighbors and friends who risked their lives to keep her alive when... |
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The Patchwork Torah
Allison Ofanansky - Kar-Ben Publishing
Format: Book
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Fragments of damaged and rescued Torahs from several periods of history are woven together in this touching tale of four generations of a Torah scribe and his family. |
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What a Way to Start a New Year!: A Rosh Hashanah Story
Jacqueline Jules
Format: Print book
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Beginning the New Year in a new city isn't easy, and it definitely isn't starting out very well for Dina and her family! But when they're welcomed by warm and generous hosts in their new community it becomes a very happy New Year for all. |
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The JGuy's Guide: The GPS for Jewish Teen Guys
Joseph B Meszler
Format: Paperback
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Who am I? How do I feel about myself? Do I seem cool? Do I fit in?"At a bar mitzvah people talk about becoming a man in the Jewish religion, but what is that supposed to mean? For sure it means you are no longer a child, but you are also not yet an adult. Fortunatel |
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Lily Renee, Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer
Trina Robbins - Graphic Universe
Format: Paperback
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In 1938, Lily Rene Wilheim is a 14-year-old Jewish girl living in Vienna. Her days are filled with art and ballet. Then the Nazis march into Austria, and Lily's life is shattered overnight. Suddenly, her own country is no longer safe for her or her family. To survive, Lily leaves her parents... |
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What Makes Someone a Jew?
Lauren Seidman - Jewish Lights; 1 edition
Format: Paperback
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What makes a person a Jew?Is it the way that they look or the things that they do?Is being Jewish a matter of how you look, or how you live? Using everyday examples that children can relate to, this colorful book helps all young Jewish readers understand what it really means to be a Jew.... |
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Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts: A Literary Cookbook
Jane Yolen - Interlink Pub Group
Format: Hardcover
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A fun book for parents and children to enjoy and treasureMaster storyteller Jane Yolen and her daughter Heidi Stemple have teamed up to bring the magic of their acclaimed Fairy Tale Feasts to the time-honored and delicious traditions of Jewish storytelling and cuisine. Here youll find Yolens... |
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The Jewish Faith
Ruth Nason - MMS Gold
Format: Paperback
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Jewish Faith introduces children to some key Jewish beliefs and practices, by welcoming them into the home of a young Jewish family from the Reform movement within Judaism. It explores what happens at Hanukkah, how the family celebrate Shabbat, and what is a mezuzah. It also looks... |
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Fiddler on the Roof
Joseph Stein; Leonard Frey; Molly Picon; Isaac Stern; Norma Crane; All authors - MGM Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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"An outstanding accomplishment in every category" (Boxoffice), this lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression... |
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Schindler's List
Steven Spielberg
Format: Book
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The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. He employed Jews in his crockery factory manufacturing goods for the German army. At the same time he trie
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The story of the Jews
Simon Schama; PBS Distribution - [Publisher not identified]
Format: DVD
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Chronicles the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day through a cast of historical characters, vivid storytelling, location photography, and more.
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DVD-Ten Commandments
Cecil B DeMille
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1956 version: The Egyptian Prince, Moses, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people.1923 version: This early silent Cecil B. DeMille production tells the story of how the Israelites left Egypt and acquired the Ten Commandments |
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Ben-Hur
Charlton Heston - Warner Home Video
Format: Paperback
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After his boyhood friend Messalas fanatic loyalty to Rome makes him a powerful enemy, Judah Ben-Hur is found guilty of an attempted murder he did not commit. His family is banished and he is enslaved on a warship. Through his ferocity in a raging sea battle, he is able... |
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Gentleman's agreement
Darryl Francis Zanuck; Elia Kazan; Moss Hart; Gregory Peck; Dorothy McGuire; All authors
Format: DVD
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Magazine writer Schuyler 'Phil' Green, a widower who has just arrived with his mother and young son in New York, is assigned the task of writing an expose of anti-Semitism. As he searches for a new angle on the topic, he decides to pass as a Jew for several months, which causes... |
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Yentl
~ Barbra Streisand - MGM Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Yentl Mendel is the boyish daughter and only child of long widowed Rebbe Mendel. He teaches Talmud to local boys and secretly to Yentl since girls are not allowed to learn the law. When her father dies, Yentl is left all alone. She makes the momentous decision... |
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Prince of Egypt
Penney Finkelman Cox - DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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A tale of two brothers, one born of royal blood, one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them apart, as one becomes the ruler of a powerful empire, the other... |
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Funny Girl (1968)
Barbra Streisand - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Ah, Barbra. Of all her onscreen personas, she sparkles in none as she does in her role as 1930s comedian Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl. Portraying the life of this star of stage and radio, Brice preens and prances and sings, captivating her audience both onscreen and off. Fanny... |
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Life is beautiful
Roberto Benigni - Miramax
Format: DVD video
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In this extraordinary tale, Guido--a charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colourful imagination and an irresistible sense of humour--has won the heart of the woman he loves and created a beautiful life for his young family. But then, that life is threatened by World War II--... |
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The Jazz Singer
- Warner Home Video
Format: DVD
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It's one of the most famous titles in film history, and everybody knows why: in a handful of sequences in The Jazz Singer, sound and image are excitingly synchronized. By 1927, some short subjects had already been "talkies," and a few features had synchronized music, but The Jazz... |
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Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2005)
Hugh Hudson - Warner Home Video
Format: DVD
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The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for bestpicture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924... |
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School Ties
Brendan Fraser
Format: DVD
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Brendan Fraser (George of the Jungle) leads an all-star cast including Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting), Ben Affleck (Chasing Amy and Shakespeare in Love) and Chris O'Donnell (Batman Forever) in this acclaimed coming-of-age drama. After receiving a scholarship to an exclusive prep... |
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The producers
Susan Stroman
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Max Bialystock was once the king of Broadway, but now he only seems to be able to produce flops. Things turn around for Max when he's visited by the neurotic accountant Leo Bloom, who proposes a scheme tailor-made for producers who can only make flops: raise far more money than yo |
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Inglourious Basterds
Brad Pitt - Universal Studios
Format: DVD
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During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish... |
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Exodus
Paul Ddmgm 1003897 Newman - MGM (Video & DVD)
Format: DVD
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This film dramatizes part of the Israeli independence moment, dealing with various factions involved in the internecine struggle between the moderate Haganah and the radical terrorist Irgun Zvai Leumi. Interspersed throughout are segments showing the migration of European Jews to the new land,... |
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