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March of Time -- outtakes -- Munkacs: Prewar Jewish life: rabbi, wedding, children

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1990.492.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0366 | Film ID: 164

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    March of Time -- outtakes -- Munkacs: Prewar Jewish life: rabbi, wedding, children

    Overview

    Description
    Men on bicycles wear sashes with Hebrew blessing, parading for May Day. Huge crowds of well wishers on street. Grand Rabbi of Munkacs in car on Mihaly Street, makes statement re: Jews in America (it is important to keep the Sabbath). Wedding party enters (synagogue courtyard?). Celebration of the Grand Rabbi's daughter's wedding. Night shots of wedding, large crowd under chuppa, cantor sings blessing. Zionist school: Large group of children sing "Hatikva" in a performance for the first graduation of the Hebrew school. Cheder: Small group of Orthodox children recite lesson, Melamed leads. Street scenes. Set up shot for camera, Orthodox young man buys book from market stall. Shot sign for weaver, in German, Hungarian, Czech and Yiddish, shots of family working outdoors: spinning and weaving. Zionist youth group, long sequence of dancing hora.
    Film Title
    Jewish Peasants
    Duration
    00:08:52
    Date
    Event:  1933 March 15
    Censor:  1933
    Locale
    Munkacs, Czechoslovakia
    Hungary
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: March of Time, Inc.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Yiddish Mixed
    Genre/Form
    Outtakes. Music.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:08:52:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 164 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 164 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 164 Video: One Inch - NTSC
      Master 164 Video: One Inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 164 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Preservation 164 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 164 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Preservation 164 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 164 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Preservation 164 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 164 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Preservation 164 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Conditions on Use
    To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 1990. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition.
    Note
    The time codes on the DigiBeta copy of this tape are: 04:01:03 to 04:09:56

    Outtake from the edited March of Time story "Jewish Peasants."
    Cameraman's dope sheet available in departmental files.

    The wedding took place on March 15, 1933. It is unclear whether all events in the film are also in 1933.

    The musicians playing in the chupah are the Oppermans (klezmer music begins at 02:47). Learn more about the Opperman family of musicians at http://www.yiddishdance.com/Turka_eng.pdf. Genia Opperman and her sister Renee (pictured in https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1095427) were on the Kindertransport from Vienna to France, where they spent the war. Genia eventually made it to England where she was reunited with her daughters after the war. Their father, Joseph Spindel, was murdered in Auschwitz after being captured in France.

    For information relating to this footage, including the identifications of several subjects, see this Israeli documentary produced in concert with Yad Vashem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UppnE8V4OGY.

    Munkacs (Mukacevo) was transferred from Czechoslovakia to Hungary in November 1938. The Encyclopedia of the Holocaust describes Munkacs as "one of the largest centers of Orthodoxy and Hasidism in Hungary..., among the first towns to be emptied of Jews in 1944. Together with other Jews of the Transcarpathian Ukraine, the local Jews were ordered into a ghetto during the second half of April 1944.... After the war, the town was transferred to the Soviet Union and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic." Munkacs was also an important Zionist center.

    Content identified by Nava Schreiber, Roberta Newman, Daniel Soyer, Severin Hochberg (USHMM historian), and various newspaper accounts. The wedding took place on March 15, 1933. 20,000 people attended coming from far and wide. According to "Rudy Vecernik" (Munkacs daily newspaper): The wedding lasted for seven days. The bride was 18 year old Frime Chaje Rifke. She was the Munkacs Rebbe's only daughter. The marriage was arranged when she was 12 years old and she saw her future husband for the first time at the wedding. The Grand Rabbi of Munkacs was Chaim Elazar Shapiro (variously given as Shapira, Spira, Spiry) (1871-1936). He was a supporter of the local Agrarian right wing party and did not support the Zionist movement. It is reported that he put a curse on the newly opened Zionist Gymnasium. According to George Havas (a Hungarian man from Munkacs now living in the DC area), the childless marriage was short lived. The bride was sent to a sanatorium where she spent the rest of her life. The groom, Baruch Rachmil Josua Rabinnovits, came from a well-known family of Polish Rebbes.
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    35mm
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 835
    Source Archive Number: 200 MTT 254
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:04:09
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