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Pre-war Jewish life in four small towns of Poland

Film | Digitized | RG Number: RG-60.0820 | Film ID: 520

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    Pre-war Jewish life in four small towns of Poland
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    Description
    01:00:32 Kolbuszowa. Very good shots of market. HA of busy square. Shots of various vendors, shoppers, goods. Jews and peasants. Street scenes. Scenics of surroundings. Shots of buildings. Police men. Large tree in park. VAR streets. Shots of children. Town "Mashugena". Cheder children. Various Jewish institutions. Yeshiva boys. Cemetery sequence. More important buildings. Town beauty. Band plays. Men pose on street. Magistrate. Town square not market day.

    01:12:25 Ranizow. General shots of town square, street, EXT of synagogue, man pumps water.

    01:14:22 Sokolow. Main street. Children pose for camera. Main square, pedestrians, cars. Statue. Street scenes, synagogue. Children wave at camera. Town beauties. EXTs of synagogue, yeshiva boys, cheder children.

    01:18:16 Rzeszow. Street scenes, important buildings, INT of library? VAR Jewish institutions. Town square, pedestrians, monument, some vendors. More street scenes.
    Film Alternate Title
    The Shtetl
    Duration
    00:21:51
    Date
    Event:  1929
    Production:  1929
    Locale
    Kolbuszowa, Poland
    Poland
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
    Contributor
    Filmmaker: Peysakh Zuckerman
    Biography
    The film was made by the immigrant Peysakh Zuckerman who took a newsreel cameraman back to Kolbuszowa in 1929. He filmed what he saw and brought the footage back to New York where he raised money from the Polish Jewish community in the United States to send back to Poland.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Silent
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    01:00:03:00 to 01:21:54:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 520 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 520 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 520 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
      Master 520 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 520 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 520 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 520 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 520 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
    Conditions on Use
    For permission to reproduce and use footage, contact the Chief Archivist of Yivo Archives at reference@yivo.org.

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    Administrative Notes

    Note
    Film presented by the Kolbuszower Relief Association. The film was made by the immigrant Peysakh Zuckerman who took a newsreel cameraman back to Kolbuszowa in 1929. He filmed what he saw and brought the footage back to New York where he raised money from the Polish Jewish community in the United States to send back to Poland.

    Another copy available at Museum of Jewish Heritage (New York).
    Copied From
    16mm
    Film Source
    Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1116
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:23:17
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