Browse Exhibits (5 total)
Cinematic Motifs as a Seismograph: Kazimierz, the Vistula and Yiddish Filmmakers in Interwar Poland
Beginning in the first part of the twentieth century, Kazimierz Dolny and the Vistula River became important symbolic elements in the memory culture of the Polish Jewry. This development had been fostered by earlier generations of storytellers and the Polish Jewish mythology they created.
Excerpts from Artistic Colony in Kazimierz Dolny, Centuries 19th-21st
"Excerpts from Artistic Colony in Kazimierz Dolny, Centuries 19th-21st" and "Cinematic Motifs as a Seismograph: Kazimierz, the Vistula and Yiddish Filmmakers in Interwar Poland"
Jewish Cinema in Łódź
At first, films were presented within traveling exhibitions and variété shows, in which these films took the place of earlier forms of visual entertainment, such as moving wax figures, dioramas, and keiserpanoramas...
Jewish Łódź: Historical Outline
On the eve of World War II Łódź was home to a vibrant Jewish community, the second largest in Poland...
Leisure Time
Even though the residents of the Jewish quarter could not afford expensive leisure activities, they did enjoy a variety of low-cost or free pastimes. People made use of the few green spaces available to them. The younger generation, especially, was drawn to vaudeville performances and the movies. Other lowbrow entertainments— “freak shows,” circuses, and performances by wrestlers and strongmen—attracted large audiences.