Selected videos from the Jewish Heritage Video Collection.

During the summer of 1999, Professor Benjamin Hubbard of the Department of Comparative Religion spearheaded an effort by the Pollak Library to obtain a grant from the Jewish Heritage Video Collection in New York City to acquire approximately 150 videocassettes and an assortment of related instructional materials. 

The broad topical coverage of the assemblage is what proved to be persuasive in the final analysis. A paragraph in an accompanying letter spells out what treasures are to be found in this trove:

The video library includes a wide range of titles independent of courses, carefully selected through the advice of an academic panel, and includes features and documentaries, foreign and American productions, film and television. In addition to well-known Hollywood films, it offers the opportunity to explore such diverse topics as the history of anti-Semitism (The Longest Hatred), the Dreyfus trial (Prisoner Of Honor), Jewish life in prewar Poland (Image Before My Eyes) and the remnants of Jewish life in Eastern Europe today (At The Crossroads).

These videocassettes are fully cataloged in the Pollak Library and the whole collection can be found by searching the title field of the Library's OPAC with the phrase: JEWISH HERITAGE VIDEO COLLECTION. Faculty and staff may check these materials out of the Pollak Library. All materials in the collection can be used by our students and the public on the 4th floor of the north wing of Pollak Library. 

Floyd Zula
Co-Coordinator, Acquisitions and Database Systems (ADS) and Art Bibliographer

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