Jewish Life in Bialystok

Barcode: 58960939 Call Number: DQ-International Jewry Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 10 min. Date: c1939 Language: Yiddish Description: Poland, 1939, B&W, Yiddish and English subtitles Producers: Yitzhak Goskind for Sektor Films Text and narration: Asher Lerner Photography: V. Kamierczak Vivid cinematography and music evoke the industrial and cultural center that was Bialystok in 1939. Images of smokestacks, power looms and textile workers; downtown shops and buses; market day with peasants and horses; schools, synagogues, the Sholem Aleichem Library, the TOZ Sanatorium and a community-run summer camp reflect the diversity of the city’s 200-year-old Jewish community. In addition to the tile-roofed home of Dr. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, Jewish Life in Bialystok features memorable images of a spacious park where young adults relax and children play. 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: Language Resource Center