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Heritage: Civilization and the Jews--Disk Three*

• 1998 ----- color ----- 177 min ----- dvd
• (Heritage: Civilization and the Jews [DVD] series, Part 3) Disk Three includes parts seven through nine of the series:
• Episode Seven--Golden Land, The: Examines the history of the Jews in the United States from colonial times to the Depression. The 'Golden Land'--in Yiddish, the Golden Medinah--was the name for America among the Jews of Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For American Jews, no matter which wave of immigration they rode to these shores, there was a convergence here between the American ideal of democracy and the ancient Jewish heritage of freedom. Traces the Jewish experience in America and ends on the eve of Hitler's rise. (Episode is entitled "The American Jewish Experience (1654-1932)" in the 16mm film version of the series).
• Episode Eight--Out of the Ashes: Explores the universal meaning of the Holocaust, defining that tragedy as the tragedy of all civilized people. Examines European Jewry after World War I and through the rise of Hitler. Touches on Kristainacht, "Night of Broken Glass" in 1938 Germany, the outbreak of World War II and the stages of repression and persecution leading to the "Final Solution." Looks at the many forms of resistance to the Nazis, explores the efforts of Jews to relocate and ends with the liberation of Europe.
• Episode Nine--Into the Future: Explores the establishment of the State of Israel and looks at its history and its relationship to American Jews and modern Jewish communities throughout the world. Reviews the distribution and the state of Jews in today's world and addresses the long-range issues which they face: questions of the crisis of Jewish identity in the United States and elsewhere, the plight of Soviet Jewry and its meaning for human rights, Israel and its meaning to the world and the American Jewish community and its significance. (Restricted to use on University of Washington campuses only)
• Topics: (History, History: American, History: European, Jewish Studies, Religions)

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