Jewish Life in Lwow
Barcode: 58946151
Call Number: International Jewry
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 10 min.
Date: c1938
System Requirements: NTSC
Language: Yiddish
Creator: Directed by Yizhak Goskind
Description: Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow’s thriving market squares to a piano-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as Lemberg and home to an old, well-established Jewish community, this city, nestled in a valley, projects an aura of prosperity. Parks and pavilions punctuate its public spaces, as trucks, pushcarts and bicycles occupy its busy streets. Among the Jewish community landmarks shown are the Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building and the old ghetto, the softly curving exterior of the Modern Temple and the orthodox school, the Moorish-looking Lazarus Hospital, the grave of the “Golden Rose” - filmed in warm, dappled light - and the Nowowsci Theater. In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of the Warsaw-based production company Sekto Films produced six short travelogs about urban Jewish communities in Poland.
Subjects: International Jewry
Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection