Israel Filmography Database Project
Academic Advisor:  Yehuda Bauer
Director:  Sheba F. Skirball
General Fields:  Film research

Background and Objectives:
     The Israel Filmography Database Project is compiling an annotated
list of film and video material on Jewish/Israeli subjects. Data is
being registered and prepared for publication as well as being made
available to online searching via the Contemporary Jewry Database on
the ALEPH computer network. All films listed are located in Israel,
including the holdings of film archives, libraries, museums and
special collections.
     The Filmography project is organized by subject, and the first
volume to be published, Films of the Holocaust: An Annotated
Filmography of Collections in Israel, contains annotated and indexed
descriptions of films on the Holocaust and related subjects such as
the rise of Nazism, partisans and righteous gentiles. The Filmography
also includes films from Yad Vashem (The Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes
Remembrance Authority) and Beit Lochamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters'
Museum), relevant clips from television news broadcasts and untitled
miscellaneous footage.

Current and Future Status:
     - Two thousand annotated and indexed film description are
       available online through the ALEPH computer network.
     - Volume I of the Filmography on the Holocaust is scheduled for
       publication in 1989 by Garland Publishing Inc. in New York.
     - Future volumes are planned, with the next to cover Israel,
       pre-1948 film material.