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.

Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.

Vaikystėje žydų berniuką Denį Balintą išvijo iš religinės mokyklos už laisvamaniškumą. Sulaukęs dvidešimt dvejų Denis tampa skustagalviu. Dabar jis neonacistų gaujos, paskelbusios karą žydams, lyderis. Nors Denio autoritetas gaujoje auga, širdyje jis – žydas, taip ir netapęs rabinu, dieną mušantis žydus, o naktį uoliai nagrinėjantis šventus žydų rankraščius.

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.

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

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.