Jewish Life in Cracow

Barcode: 58960941 Call Number: DQ-International Jewry Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 10 min. Date: 1939, 2005 Language: Yiddish Description: Poland, 1939, B&W, Yiddish and English subtitles Producers: Yitzhak Goskind for Sektor Films Text and narration: Asher Lerner Photography: V. Kazimierczak Focusing on Cracow’s Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages; people conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls; parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated discussions. Scenes of the famous remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, the Jewish Community Council and several schools convey the vitality of this age-old Jewish community. 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