Comrade Abram
Barcode: 58946856
Call Number: International Jewry
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 18 min.
Date: 1919, [200-?]
Language: Yiddish
Description: One of thirteen single-reel agitki made to be shown on the agit-trains that carried propaganda across post-revolutionary Russia. It focuses on Abram Hersh, a young Jewish pogrom survivor, factory worker and organizer in Moscow who rises to leadership in the Red Army. This short emphasizes Hersh's suffering and heroism as both worker and Jew, and promotes solidarity over antisemitism
Subjects: International Jewry
Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection