Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
Un cabeza rapada racista estadounidense incondicional que, debido a su inteligencia, lidera una pandilla dedicada a luchar contra el enemigo: la supuesta conspiración judío-estadounidense para la dominación. Sin embargo, esconde un secreto: es judío de nacimiento, un erudito brillante cuyo cuestionamiento de los principios de su fe lo ha dejado enojado y confundido, volviéndose contra aquellos que cree que tienen una historia trágica de su propia creación.
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Vida obra y muerte de Jesus de Nazareth. Jesús, hijo de José y María, trabaja como carpintero recorriendo las tierras de Galilea. Desde bien pequeño, descubre que es hijo de Dios y que ha venido a la Tierra para redimir al hombre de todos sus pecados. El pueblo de Israel, dominado por Roma, intenta ver en él un libertador que expulse al Gobernador Poncio Pilatos, un hombre que desde su llegada muestra un insultante menosprecio por el pueblo judío.
Narra la vida de Sam Krichinsky (Armin Mueller-Stahl), un inmigrante judío de origen polaco llegado a Baltimore (Estados Unidos) a principios del siglo XX. Él y sus hermanos encontraron trabajo, se casaron y tuvieron hijos. Su principal objetivo era mantener a la familia reunida.
A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.
For most of America's history, sacred buildings represented our greatest feats of innovative engineering and artistic design. Unlock the elements of design that make these structures so fascinating and unveil the meaning in religious architecture, ranging from grand cathedrals and simple country churches to synagogues and mosques.
Moving record of a once-thriving East End Jewish community on the cusp of enormous change.