The CAJE Library has been awarded the Jewish Heritage Video Collection (JHVC). The video collection, housing over 200 videos and numerous curricular pieces, usually priced at over $12,000, was awarded via a matching grant of $2,500. The collection, a project of the Jewish Media Fund/Revson Foundation, is internationally renowned and contains documentaries, comedies, dramas and many rare films that CAJE library users have been requesting for years, like “Operation Jonathan.”

Because the CAJE library’s resources are in such high demand, the addition of the JHVC to our library will allow our patrons and staff to utilize an even larger cache of educational assets.

The JHVC provides CAJE with a vast resource of educational materials, nearly doubling our already impressive video collection. The JHVC also comes with a superb, and incredibly accommodating, collection of associated curricular pieces and courses. Curricular units, ranging from lessons such as “American Jewish Directors” and “Elie Wiesel's Great Figures of the Bible” to “Yiddish Culture” and “Viewer's Guide for

Israel: A Nation Is Born”, will be available to all educators and the public. We are particularly excited by the prospects of using this collection in our Florence Melton Adult Mini-School courses, youth programs and Hebrew High School classes.

There are currently only three JHVC libraries in Colorado. Because our collection will be housed in the CAJE library, it will be readily accessible by the public at no cost.

In addition to the JHVC we have also received The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, edited by Shumel Spector and Geoffery Wigoder. The encyclopedia chronicles the people, habits and customs of over 6,500 thriving communities before and during the Holocaust. Filled with photographs, maps and charts as well as heartbreaking narratives, this encyclopedia puts faces on the immeasurable loss of the Holocaust.