The Devil's Arithmetic |
Drake |
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The Devils Arithmetic is a holocaust story seen from a modern teenage girl who grudgingly accepts her Jewish traditions when she is asked to open the door for Elijah as part of the Seder fest. When she opens the door she finds herself in the 1940s living the life as a prisoner is a concentration camp. In the first scene of this movie, we see how the candles are lit, the challah is broken and stories are told about their past all part as Seder. Starts at 6:43
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Aubrey Drake Graham, known as Drake is a Canadian-Jewish songwriter and rap star born in Toronto, Canada on October 24, 1986. In his music video of Hell Yeah Fucking Right, it shows Drake having his Bar Mitzvah ceremony. There are people wearing the yarmulke. On 1:20, the background has the Jewish star which is the star of David. A Jewish Wedding ritual is also shown in the video at 1:25-1:130 when they lift the groom up in the air while sitting on the chair.
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Life is Beautiful
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In the 1930’s a Jewish man named Guido lives a fairytale life. Surprisingly, he always had luck when trying to impress a lovely lady from the city. They then got married and had a son and became a bookkeeper. They all lived well until a German force occupied Italy and sent them to a concentration camp. In an attempt to hold his family together, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and the grand prize is tank, for his luck, this actually keeps his son blind and entertained from seeing and the horrors of the Holocaust.
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Jakob the Liar
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob is caught outside after curfew, which leads him to be summoned to the ghetto headquarters. While waiting to hear his punishment, he overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. When he returns to the Ghetto, he tells his friend and rumors quickly spread that he has a secret radio. In the chance to give people hope he uses this imaginary secret radio to inform people about movements out in the world. Jakob, however, has a secret, he has been hiding a Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train.
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