JHVC Bibliography

Using Film --> Bibliography

Bibliography Most of the books listed below served as the inspirations or source materials for films in the Collection, while others were written as companion volumes or to continue the dialogues that began in the films. Children's
Films Aaron's Magic Village	Book Titles Stories for Children by Isaac Bashevis Singer New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984.
Noah's Ark, Stories to Remember	Noah's Ark by Peter Spier Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977.
A Rugrats Hanukah	The Rugrats' Book of Chanukah by Sarah Wilson and Barry Goldberg Simon & Schuster Children's, 1997.
Stories from the Jewish Tradition: In the Month of Kislev and Zlateh the Goat	In the Month of Kislev by Nina Jaffe Viking Children's Books, 1992. "Zlateh the Goat" from Zlateh the Goat and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1966.
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Comedy
Films Biloxi Blues	Book Titles Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon New York: Random House, 1986.
Brighton Beach Memoirs	Brighton Beach Memoirs by Neil Simon New York: Random House, 1984.
Gengis Cohn	The Dance of Gengis Cohn By Romain Gary New York: World Publishing Co., 1968.
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Holocaust
Films The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank	Book Titles Anne Frank Remembered by Miep Gies, with Alison Leslie Gold New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Camera of My Family	Camera of My Family by Catherine Noren New York: Knopf, 1976.
Danzig, 1939	Danzig 1939, Treasures of a Destroyed Community edited by the Jewish Museum Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1980.
The Diary of Anne Frank	The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank New York: Doubleday, 1989.
Enemies, A Love Story	Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1972.
Europa, Europa	Europa, Europa by Solomon Perel New York: Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1997.
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis	The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani London: Faber & Faber, 1965.
Lodz Ghetto	Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege edited by Alan Adelson and Robert Lapides New York: Viking, 1989.
The Long Way Home	The Long Way Home by Mark Jonathan Harris Simon Wiesenthal Center/Media, 1997.
Night and Fog	Night and Fog by Arne Brun Lie New York: Norton, 1990.
The Oppermanns	The Oppermanns by Lion Feuchtwanger New York: Viking Press, 1934.
The Pawnbroker	The Pawnbroker by Edward Lewis Wallant New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
Schindler's List	Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
Shoah	Shoah by Claude Lanzmann New York: Pantheon Books, 1985.
So Many Miracles	So Many Miracles by Saul Rubinek New York: Viking Penguin, 1988.
Transport from Paradise	Night and Hope by Arnost Lustig Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1972.
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust	Witness: Voices from the Holocaust edited by Joshua Greene and Shiva Kumar Free Press, 2000.
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International Jewry
Films At the Crossroads	Book Titles The Last Jews of Eastern Europe by Yale Strom New York: Philosophical Library, 1986. A Tree Still Stands: Jewish Youth in Eastern Europe Today by Yale Strom New York: Philomel Books, 1990.
Fiddler on the Roof	Tevye's Daughters by Sholem Aleichem New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem New York: Schocken Books, 1987.
Image Before My Eyes	Image Before My Eyes by Lucjan Dobroszycki and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett New York: Schocken Books, 1977.
Tevye der Milkhiker	Tevye's Daughters by Sholem Aleichem New York: Crown Publishers, 1949. Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories by Sholem Aleichem New York: Schocken Books, 1987.
Yentl	"Yentl the Yeshiva Boy" from Short Friday and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer New York: Farrar, Straus, 1963.
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Israel
Films Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land	Book Titles Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land by David Shipler New York: Times Books, 1986.
Cast a Giant Shadow	Cast a Giant Shadow by Ted Berkman Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.
Exodus	Exodus by Leon Uris Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958.
Israel: Birth of a Nation	Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert New York: Morrow, 1998.
The Israelis	Israelis: Founders and Sons by Amos Elon New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1971.
Jerusalem with Martin Gilbert	Jerusalem, Illustrated History Atlas by Martin Gilbert (3rd revised ed.) Vallentine Mitchell, 1994. Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century by Martin Gilbert Wiley, John & Sons, Inc., 1996. Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City by Martin Gilbert Viking Penguin, 1985.
Under the Domim Tree	Under the Domim Tree by Gila Almagor Simon & Schuster Children's, 1995.
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Jewish Experience in America
Films The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	Book Titles The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordechai Richler Boston, Little, Brown, 1959.
The Chosen	The Chosen by Chaim Potok New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967.
Classic Recipes for Jewish Cooking	Jewish Cooking in America by Joan Nathan New York: A. Knopf, 1994.
Crossing Delancey	Crossing Delancey by Susan Sandler Samuel French Inc., 1984.
Daniel	The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow New York: Random House, 1971.
Driving Miss Daisy	Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1988.
The Forward: From Immigrants to Americans	A Bintel Brief: Sixty Years of Letters from the Lower East Side to the Jewish Daily Forward edited by Isaac Metzker New York: Schocken Books, 1990.
Funny Girl	Funny Girl book by Isobel Lennart, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Bob Merrill New York: Random House, 1964.
Gentleman's Agreement	Gentleman's Agreement by Laura Z. Hobson New York: Simon & Schuster, 1947.
Goodbye, Columbus	Goodbye, Columbus by Phillip Roth Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959.
Hester Street	"Yekl", Yekl and The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto Abraham Cahan New York: Dover Pubs, 1970.
Hollywood: An Empire of their Own	An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler New York: Crown Publishers, 1988.
Imported Bridegroom	"The Imported Bridegroom" from Yekel and The Imported Bridegroom, and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan New York: Dover Publications 1970.
The Jazz Singer	The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson New York: S. French, 1935.
Marjorie Morningstar	Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1955.
Number Our Days	Number Our Days by Barbara Meyerhoff New York: Dutton, 1978.
Street Scene	Street Scene by Elmer Rice New York: S. French, 1929.
The Way We Were	The Way We Were by Arthur Laurents New York: Harper & Row, 1972.
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Religion and Identity
Films The Disputation	Book Titles Judaism on Trial : Jewish-Christian Disputations in the Middle Ages edited by Hyam Maccoby Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981.
Genesis: A Living Conversation	Genesis: A Living Conversation with Bill Moyers New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Great Figures of the Bible	Five Biblical Portraits by Elie Wiesel Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. Messengers of God by Elie Wiesel New York: Random House, 1976.
Half the Kingdom	Half the Kingdom: Seven Jewish Feminists edited by Francine Zuckerman Vehicule Press, 1993.
The Longest Hatred	Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred by Robert Wistrich Pantheon Books, 1992.
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