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The Jews (/dʒuːz/;Hebrew: יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3 Yehudim, Israeli pronunciation [jehuˈdim]), also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites, or Hebrews, of the Ancient Near East. Jewish ethnicity, nationhood and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation, while its observance varies from strict observance to complete nonobservance.
The Jews trace their ethnogenesis to the part of the Levant known as the Land of Israel. The discovery of the Merneptah Stele confirms the existence of the people of Israel in Canaan as far back as the 13th century BCE. Since then, while maintaining rule over their homeland during certain periods—such as under the Kingdom of Israel, the Kingdom of Judah, the Hasmonean Dynasty, and the Herodian Kingdom—Jews also suffered various exiles and occupations from their homeland—from Ancient Egyptian Occupation of the Levant, to Assyrian Captivity and Exile, to Babylonian Captivity and Exile, to Greek Occupation and Exile, to the Roman Occupation and Exile. These events subjected Jews to slavery, pogroms, cultural assimilation, forced expulsions, genocide, and more, scattering Jews all around the world, in what is known today as the Jewish diaspora.
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and Führer ("leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He was effectively dictator of Nazi Germany, and was a central figure of World War II in Europe and the Holocaust.
Hitler was a decorated veteran of World War I. He joined the precursor of the NSDAP, the German Workers' Party, in 1919 and became leader of the NSDAP in 1921. In 1923, he attempted a coup in Munich to seize power. The failed coup resulted in Hitler's imprisonment, during which time he dictated his autobiography and political manifesto Mein Kampf ("My Struggle"). After his release in 1924, Hitler gained popular support by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting Pan-Germanism, anti-Semitism, and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and Nazi propaganda. Hitler frequently denounced international capitalism and communism as being part of a Jewish conspiracy.
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and television personality, producer, author, actor, and photographer. He is best known as the host of The Howard Stern Show, his long-running radio show which gained popularity when it was nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio from 1986 to 2005 before its move to Sirius XM Radio in 2006. Stern first wished to be on the radio at five years of age. He landed his first radio jobs while at Boston University—WTBU, the campus station, and WNTN in Newton, Massachusetts. From 1976 to 1982, Stern developed his on-air personality through morning positions at WRNW in Briarcliff Manor, New York, WCCC in Hartford, Connecticut, WWWW in Detroit, Michigan, and WWDC in Washington, D.C. Stern worked afternoons at WNBC in New York City from 1982 until his firing in 1985.
In 1985, Stern began a 20-year run at WXRK in New York City, where his show was syndicated to 60 markets and attracted 20 million listeners. Stern won numerous awards, including Billboard’s Nationally Syndicated Air Personality of the Year eight times. He became the most fined radio host when the Federal Communications Commission issued fines totaling $2.5 million to station licensees for content it deemed indecent. Stern became one of the highest paid radio figures after signing a five-year deal with Sirius in 2004 worth $500 million. In recent years, Stern took up photography and has had work featured in Hamptons and WHIRL magazines. From 2012 to 2015, he served as a judge on America's Got Talent.
Actors: John Pope (actor), John Pope (writer), John Pope (producer), Matthew Holloway (actor), Matthew Holloway (producer), Walker Sigmon (actor), Josh Levin (producer), Josh Levin (writer), Josh Levin (actor), Steven Dadouche (director), Steven Dadouche (producer), Andrew Moncrief (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Ondrej Vetchý (actor), Marek Vasut (actor), Jan Kacer (actor), Jirí Lábus (actor), Vladimír Dlouhý (actor), Simona Stasová (actress), Václav Mares (actor), Radoslav Brzobohatý (actor), Vilma Cibulková (actress), Karel Dobrý (actor), Martin Huba (actor), Emma Cerná (actress), Milan Cieslar (editor), Milan Cieslar (director), Milan Cieslar (producer),
Plot: An intimate ballad following the lives of a mother and daughter who go through topsy-turvy historical times. The plot is divided into four seasons set between 1939 and 1961. A Czech woman named Helga works at a German hospital. Out of her love for a Baltic nobleman named Arno, a volunteer in the Finnish War, her daughter Dorli is born. But Arno commits suicide and after the war is over mother and daughter must bear the victors' revenge alone - Helga is humiliated and expelled from her native region. Mother and daughter survive thanks only to the aid of the Jewish head doctor of the hospital. Years later Arno's body is exhumed and Dorli, who has always felt close to him, wants to trace her father's roots. She and a Greek boy try to escape but Communist repression spoils their plans. In order to protect her daughter, Helga puts herself at the mercy of a secret police torturer.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, africa, based-on-novel, border-region, collaboration-with-communist, communist, convent, czechoslovakian-historyActors: Zbigniew Zamachowski (actor), Andrzej Szenajch (actor), Borys Szyc (actor), Andrew Tiernan (actor), Axel Prahl (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), John Bennett (actor), Peter Rappenglück (actor), Lech Mackiewicz (actor), Frank Finlay (actor), Thomas Kretschmann (actor), Marian Dziedziel (actor), Adrien Brody (actor), Katarzyna Figura (actress), Zofia Czerwinska (actress),
Plot: A brilliant pianist, a Polish Jew, witnesses the restrictions Nazis place on Jews in the Polish capital, from restricted access to the building of the Warsaw ghetto. As his family is rounded up to be shipped off to the Nazi labor camps, he escapes deportation and eludes capture by living in the ruins of Warsaw.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anti-semitism, assault-rifle, atrocity, attacking-someone-in-a-wheelchair, attic, based-on-autobiography, based-on-true-story, bathtubActors: Milenia Fiedler (editor), Zygmunt Konieczny (composer), Piotr Adamczyk (actor), Kinga Preis (actress), Dariusz Jablonski (producer), Mariusz Bonaszewski (actor), Andrzej Tarasewicz (miscellaneous crew), Andrzej Mularczyk (writer), Henryk Romanowski (producer), Agata Buzek (actress), Magdalena Biernawska-Teslawska (costume designer), Magda Teresa Wójcik (actress), Henryk Boukolowski (actor), Andrzej Niemirski (actor), Michal Breitenwald (actor),
Genres: Drama, War,Actors: Frances Bay (actress), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Stuart Gordon (director), Albert Band (producer), Geoffrey Copleston (actor), Charles Band (producer), Richard Band (composer), Mark Margolis (actor), Jeffrey Combs (actor), Larry Dolgin (actor), Oliver Reed (actor), Benito Stefanelli (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Robert Dawson (miscellaneous crew), Bennah Burton-Burtt (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: It is the time of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria does not like what is going on during the "Auto De Fe". When she speaks out, she is arrested and accused of being a witch. Torquemada has plans for her! He orders her tortured, and her tongue to be cut out. Her husband attempts to free her...
Keywords: 1400s, 15th-century, accuser, baker, based-on-story, based-on-the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe, betrayal, blade, blasphemy, bloodActors: Franciszek Pieczka (actor), Wojciech Pszoniak (actor), Adolf Peter Hoffmann (actor), Edward Zentara (actor), Ryszard Jablonski (actor), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (writer), Jerzy Kawalerowicz (director), Liliana Komorowska (actress), Jan Hencz (actor), Werner Wieland (actor), Wieslawa Otocka (editor), Tadeusz Konwicki (writer), Szymon Szurmiej (actor), Szymon Szurmiej (miscellaneous crew), Zofia Saretok (actress),
Plot: Set in the Polish Galicia in 1914, on the eve of World War I. Three nationalities are living in the area: Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish. The country inn (Austeria in Galician) is run by an old and wise Jew, Tag. The neighboring village is abandoned by the Jews, who left only few steps ahead of advancing Cossacks. Soon the inn is full of desperate Jews, there is also an Austrian baroness on the run and an Hungarian hussar cut off from his unit.
Keywords: based-on-novel, jewish, male-frontal-nudity, male-nudity, male-rear-nudity, nudity, skinny-dipping, world-war-oneActors: Eva Mattes (actress), Josef Bierbichler (actor), Beate Mainka-Jellinghaus (editor), Werner Herzog (director), Herbert Fux (actor), Klaus Kinski (actor), Werner Herzog (writer), Wolfgang Reichmann (actor), Willy Semmelrogge (actor), Irm Hermann (actress), Volker Prechtel (actor), Dieter Augustin (actor), Georg Büchner (writer), Rosemarie Heinikel (actress), Paul Burian (actor),
Plot: Everything in town appears calm, placid, lovely. But Woyzeck, a rifleman assigned as an orderly, hears voices -- the times are out of joint, at least in his cosmos. To his captain, Woyzeck is a comic marvel: ignorant but courageous, full of energy to little purpose. To a local doctor, Woyzeck is a curiosity, the object of cruel study. Woyzeck, 40, has a young wife, Marie, and a small child. He dotes on them, but Marie, even though she has periods of guilt and remorse, carries on affairs and flirtations. When the captain lets drop broad hints of Woyzeck's being a cuckold, his inner demons and the voices of the spheres take over. Will madness bring action? Of what sort?
Keywords: adulterous-wife, based-on-play, brutality, character-study, despair, military, one-word-title, soldier, underdog, uniformActors: Gustaw Holoubek (actor), Andrzej Lapicki (actor), Wirgiliusz Gryn (actor), Anna Dymna (actress), Zygmunt Konieczny (composer), Zdzislaw Maklakiewicz (actor), Alicja Jachiewicz (actress), Edmund Fetting (actor), Maja Komorowska (actress), Krzysztof Stroinski (actor), Piotr Pawlowski (actor), Jerzy Cnota (actor), Wieslawa Otocka (editor), Mieczyslaw Waskowski (actor), Jadwiga Kuryluk (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Witold Skaruch (actor), Wojciech Siemion (actor), Sylwester Przedwojewski (actor), Wieslaw Golas (actor), Ryszard Ronczewski (actor), Henryk Bak (actor), Roman Polanski (actor), Juliusz Lubicz-Lisowski (actor), Bronislaw Pawlik (actor), Kazimierz Opalinski (actor), Roman Klosowski (actor), Leonard Pietraszak (actor), Andrzej Krasicki (actor), Maria Kaniewska (actress), Wojciech Skibinski (actor),
Plot: The story is an odyssey of a little man through Poland of 1930 to 1950. It shows his attempts to cope with a changing world which seems to have no place for him. He has no consciousness of any kind but is always on the verge of turning into a more coherent human being, only to be slapped down. It begins with the hero's childhood. Then comes the first love marred by his unwilling involvement in fascict politics, him being taken for a Jew because of his nose. Later he decides to join the army to charm the girl, but arrives too late for any fighting. He is arrested by entering German troops while he dresses in officer's uniform and mistakenly sent to POW camp as an officer.
Keywords: based-on-novel, communism, post-war