A Day in Warsaw : Jewish Life in Warsaw
Barcode: 58995580
Call Number: V-YID 008
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 10 min.
Date: c1938
Language: Yiddish
Creator: Directed by Yitzhak Goskind
Description: The lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial “beehive” Nalewki Street, were home to 400,000 Jews before World War II. A Day in Warsaw sets Warsaw’s multi-storied buildings and broad streets against its old market square and Jewish quarter. Trucks, trolleys, autos and buses meet horse-drawn carriages, pushcarts and porters in the bustling commercial district. Also shown are the Yiddish Theater, Gensza Cemetery and other Jewish institutions - the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogues. At film’s end, after Sabbath services, families pour into Krashinsky Park where children play and adults spiritedly debate the issues of the day. 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, Polish Jewry, Yiddish, Warsaw, Poland
Collection: Language Resource Center