The Sylvia Suckerman Memorial Jewish Video Library, also known as Video Judaica, is the largest independent Jewish video collection in the US. Formally opened with 346 titles in 1993, our library has steadly grown to more than 1,500 tapes of Jewish interest, with DVDs being added soon. Our mission is to make these videos available to educators in metropolitan areas, as well as Jews and those interested in Judaism who live in small communities and do not have access to these resources locally. Our collection is housed at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle, Washington. TDHS covers all of our overhead, so 100% of donations go toward expanding our collection and community services.

Film categories include Hollywood theatrical features, docudramas, documentaries, Israeli films (Hebrew with English subtitles), foreign films from many other countries, cable features, TV films, Yiddish films from the '30s & '40s (subtitled), cooking & food, Jewish music from around the world, Jewish identity, children's videos, educational films and classic silent.

Borrowing films is easy. Fill out a short membership application and pay a nominal one time membership fee, and our 1,500 tape collection is open to you for $3.00 per week per film plus mailing costs.

Contact Robert Shay at rshay@qwest.net

Or call (206) 478-0505

Or mail request to:
Video Judaica
c/o Robert Shay
610 123rd Ave. NE
Bellevue, Washington 98005



Shay Suckerman, our benefactor, and his late wife Sylvia Suckerman, for whom the collection is named.

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