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Jiddisch musik

Marian Hirschorn, 1987

Up to the 2nd World War Eastern European Jews lived in small towns, 'Stehtl's', and spoke almost exclusively Yiddisch - a kind of German mixed with Hebrew and local dialect. Today these towns no longer exist and with the older generation Yiddisch is disappearing as a living language. The environment of those days is described through music and songs.

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Arlette: en historie vi aldrig må glemme

Thomas Kvist Christiansen, 2020

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Mig og jøderiet

Ulrik Gutkin, 2009

A cheerful and thought-provoking documentary that studies the collision of two cultures. It examines what it means to be a non-religious Jew in Denmark today. A conflict arises between a Danish Jewish man (the director himself) and his Danish atheist partner, who gives birth their baby boy.

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Børn af dagen

Amir Rezazadeh, 2013

One morning the cosmopolitan and humanistic teacher Kasper enters the classroom to teach his students. To his surprise, someone has written a quote on the black board: We will not have Jewish students on this school". Who wrote this disgusting statement? Kasper becomes upset and chooses to quote the Danish philosopher Søren Kirkegaard: Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

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The Long Way Home

Mark Jonathan Harris, 1997

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An act of faith

John Desmond, 1996

Describes the rescue of Denmark's Jews from Nazi persecution, as presented through interviews with people who participated in the rescue operations.

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Defamation

Yoav Shamir, 2009

What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir travels the world in search of the most modern manifestations of the ¿oldest hatred", and comes up with some startling answers. In this irreverent quest, he follows American Jewish leaders to the capitals of Europe, as they warn government officials of the growing threat of anti-Semitism, and he tacks on to a class of Israeli high school students on a pilgrimage to Auschwitz.

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Theresienstadt - Danske Jøder i Hitlers Fangenskab

Carl Otto Dethlefsen, Jonatan Jerichow, 2015

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Silence

Orly Yadin, Sylvie Bringas, 1998

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Hanoshrim - de jødiske emigranter fra Polen

Marian Hirschorn, 1983

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Min jødiske bedstefar - Portræt af en rejse

Casper Høyberg, 1994

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Ebreju iela

Herz Frank, 1992