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Heritage - DVD SET
Civilization and the Jews
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DVD-ROM |
VHS-Video |
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Age Level:
Age Level: 12-Adult |
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Media:
DVD-ROM or VHS-Video |
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Version:
Windows 95/98/2000/NT/ME/XP
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About
- Heritage - DVD SET
Nine one hour programs on three DVDs
plus an interactive DVD-ROM.
Winner of the coveted Peabody Award,
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
is the monumental nine-part series
hosted by former Israeli Ambassador
to the United States Abba Eban. This
epic production from public
television station Thirteen/WNET New
York traces the history of the
Jewish people from biblical times to
the present, telling their story as
part of the broader history of
Western civilization. Five years in
the making, and filmed on four
continents, Heritage: Civilization
and the Jews became a landmark, a
television portrait of the Jewish
experience with a scope and depth
that is unlikely to ever be
duplicated. Now, after a national
public television broadcast, it will
be available for the first time in a
dramatically expanded form including
on DVD with an interactive DVD-ROM.
Heritage: Civilization and the Jews
is a deluxe four-disc DVD boxed set.
The set includes nine hour-long
episodes on three DVDs and the
Heritage Interactive DVD-Rom. The
DVDs include maps and excerpts from
Encyclopedia Judaica, which can be
explored in more depth on the
accompanying DVD-Rom.
The comprehensive DVD-Rom, Heritage
Interactive, is an “interactive
museum of Jewish experience”, which
includes over 650 annotated
historical documents; 541 map views
with over 2,250 explanatory essays;
over 3,600 encyclopedia articles;
4,000 captions that accompany the 9
hours of original series video; over
100 interactive multimedia
presentations containing over 800
historical images; an unlimited book
marking system; a built-in ‘Help’
feature, and a fully searchable
index of over 7000 multimedia
elements.
Features - Heritage - DVD SET
The DVD-Rom includes:
Full Nine Hour Original Series Video
Heritage Interactive is organized
into five interconnected components.
The nine hours of the television
series will form the core of this
new product. Users can choose to
watch the programs full-screen or in
a window accompanied by tools for
rapidly navigating and exploring the
video. Every image will be
annotated, so that, with a click of
the mouse, a user can learn the name
of each work of art or the location
of any important site that appears
on screen.
Historical Documents
Original documents from every period
of Jewish history will be included:
sacred texts, eyewitness accounts,
political treaties, and literary
works. Documents of a more personal
nature - letters and journals - will
also be included to offer glimpses
of everyday life long ago.
Multimedia Presentations
Combining sound, video, graphics,
animation, and text, these exhibits
will constitute a multimedia museum
of the art, artifacts, and documents
of Jewish history. Selections will
include biographies, brief
documentaries on historical issues,
and audio guided tours of past times
and places. One exhibit might
include readings of poetry from the
golden age of Spanish Jewry. Another
might narrate the life of the
founder of Hadassah. Yet another
might let users sample klezmer music
and learn the role it played in the
Jewish world of Eastern Europe.
Linked together in intriguing ways,
these presentations will add
significantly to the amount of
material in the original series.
Historical Atlas
Almost a thousand full-color maps
will enable users to follow the
odyssey of the Jews from their
captivity in ancient Egypt to their
role in shaping the modern world.
Users can zoom in until the streets
of Jerusalem fill the screen or pull
back to gain a view of the entire
earth. Specially designed to change
dramatically, the maps will allow
the user to move quickly through
history and watch as empires come
and go, and cities rise to
prominence or fall into neglect. The
maps are also extensively annotated
so that the user need only click on
a city, a trade route, or an
important site, to learn of its role
in the culture or politics of its
time.
Encyclopedia
An abridged version of the
Encyclopedia Judaica, the
unparalleled 16-volume reference
work published in 1973, will be
available in electronic form. This
edition, produced specially for
Heritage Interactive by the editors
of Encyclopedia Judaica, will
include almost a third of the
articles of the full Encyclopedia,
abbreviated for ease of use in the
computer environment.
Index
A powerful index will allow users to
locate quickly and easily any map,
article, document, or section of
video. Users can take advantage of a
special set of tools to create their
own pathways through Heritage
Interactive, browsing the material
by date, region, culture, and
subject of interest. A set of simple
choices will allow the user to focus
on a specific topic such as
architecture, religion, or
literature, and explore the relevant
documents, maps and video.
Minimum computer requirements:
· DVD-ROM drive
· 200mhz Windows-compatible
processor (Intel, AMD, or Cyrix)
· 32 MB RAM
· 50 MB free hard drive space
· 16-bit sound and video
Recommended computer configuration:
· DVD-ROM drive
· 300mhz or better MMX processor
· 64 MB or more RAM
· 275 MB or more free hard drive
space
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