Overview
- Description
- Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Lwow." Pan, overview Lwow city nestled in a valley. Large buildings, city square, monuments, trams, busy street traffic, pedestrians, promenade, important buildings, marketplace. Stylish men and women promenade through modern Lwow, also known as Lemberg. MSs, shopping for wares and sellers at marketplace. Parks and pavilions, public spaces, busy streets, people. 04:05:58 Scenes in the old and well-established Jewish community, following groups of well-dressed and Orthodox Jews, street scenes, daily activities, and showing the landmarks: Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building, Old Ghetto, softly curving exterior of the Modern Temple, the orthodox school, Moorish-looking Lazarus Hospital, grave of the "Golden Rose" and the Nowosci Theater. Large, thriving marketplace. Crowds watching a street performer. VAR shots of marketeers. Pan of city. "The End"
- Film Title
-
Jewish Life in Lwow
- Duration
- 00:10:16
- Date
-
Event:
1939
Production: 1939
- Locale
-
Lviv (Lvov),
Poland
Ukraine
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Yitzhak Goskind
Camera Operator: V. Kazimierczak
Narrator: Asher Lerner
Producer: Shaul Goskind
Text Contributor: Asher Lerner
- Biography
-
In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35mm films were made for Landsmanshaften groups in America for fundraising purposes. On the eve of war, the Goskinds sent the films to Joseph Seiden, the prolific director in New York who distributed Yiddish newsreels and feature films in the US and Europe.
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 04:01:15:00 to 04:11:31:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print
Master 238 Video: One Inch - 1 inch - NTSC
Master 238 Film: positive - 16 mm - b&w - print- Preservation
Preservation 238 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 238 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 238 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 238 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
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- Conditions on Use
- Third parties should contact the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at jfa@savion.huji.ac.il for permission to reproduce and use the footage. Both the Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (Jerusalem) and the National Center for Jewish Film (Massachusetts) claim copyright to this footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased "Five Cities" on film from the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive via the United Studios of Israel in February 1992.
- Note
- John E. Allen, Inc. (an archive now located at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC) holds the only 35mm nitrate copy of this footage, which likely entered John E. Allen, Inc. before the Goskins gave rights to Spielberg Jewish Film Archive.
- Film Source
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2255
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:00:29
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