Eretz Israel in Sfinks

Eretz Israel in Sfinks

Ad from Lodzer Tageblat announcing a 1914 screening of a monumental, 46-part documentary showing the landscape, historical sites, and everyday life of the Jewish settlers in the Land of Israel, which at the time was under Ottoman rule.

Lodzer Tageblat no. 63

1914

Yiddish

Polish

newspaper ad

„Sfinks” / 2 Zshelona 2 / Nay renovirt. / Sfinks / Yeder vos vil zehen / gants Erets Yisroel / un zayne shehnste natur-gegenden vi: thal, berger, taykhen, a. z. v. mit ale hayntige shtedt, oykh di kolonies / un ale yudishe historishe erter un binyonim, / zol oysnutsen di zeltene gelegenhayt un gehn in kinematograf „Sfinks,” Zshelona 2, vu es vert geviezen tsum ershten mol in Lodz, dos vunderfole bild / „Dos leben fun di yuden in Palestina” / in folgende 46 obtaylungen mit 250 stsenen: / 1) Dos leben fun di yuden in Erets-Yisroel, / 2) Di rayze nokh Erets Yisroel, / 3) Oyfn veg fun Odes nokh Yafe, / 4) Yafe un Tel-Aviv, / 5) Di froyen-seminarium un medchen-shule / 6) Dos Yafe’er gimnazium un der shpatsier fun di shiler, / 7) „Pesakh Tikve” un „Ayin Ganim”, / 8) Dos kloyben fun pomerantsen in „Pesakh Tikve”, / 9) Di kolonie „Khadera”, / 10) Di kolonie „Zikorn Yankev”, / 11) Di arbayt in di vayngertner, / 12) Kheyfe gezehen fun shpits „Karmel”, / 13) Di arbayt baym Kheyfer tekhnikum, / 14) Di ferme „Kineres”, / 15) Di Timener [?] yuden, / 16) Tberya, / 17) Dos keyver fun R. Meyer Bal Nes, / 18) Dem Rambam’s keyver / 19) Di moskver firme „Megadl”, / 20) Di kolonie „Rosh Pine”, / 21) Di mandel-zamlung, / 22) Tsfas, / 23) Oyfn veg keyn Yerusholaim, / 24) Di berg fun Yehude un Shimshn Hagiber’s keyver, / 25) Di shtodt Yerusholaim, / 26) Dovid Hameylekhs turm, / 27) Der Koysl-Maaro’vi, / 28) Di kvorim fun di Sanedrin un Shimon Hatsadek’s keyver, / 29) Yad Avsholem, Zekharye Hanovi’s keyver un dos ort fun di metsoyroim, / 30) Dos ort fun Beys-Amigdesh (der metshet Oymer), / 31) Di shiler fun „Ezre”, / 32) Di Betsalel-shule, / 33) Rokhl’s keyver, / 34) Khevron, / 35) Shloyme Hameylekh’s kvalen, / 36) Di mayrev-hamakhfele, / 37) Dos alte Yerikhe un di Elishe-kvele, / 38) Dos naye Yerikhe, / 39) Der Yam-Hamelekh un der Yardn, / 40) Di kolonie „Rishn Letsien” un Karmel vayn-keler, / 41) Di kolonie Vadi Khunayn, / 42) Di biegen-tsukht in Vadi Khunayn, / 43) Dos 80-yahrige yubileum fun di „Bilu” in Gedere, / 44) Di ershte pioneren „Bilu’’s”, / 45) Di kolonie Ekroyn, / 46) Der Peysekh-yontev in „Rekhovot” [sic]. / Anfang 3 uhr nokhmitog. Prayz 30 un 40 kop. Lozshen 50 kop.

“Sphinx” / 2 Zielona 2 / Newly renovated. / Sphinx / Everyone who wants to see / the whole Land of Israel / and its most beautiful natural landscapes, such as: valleys, mountains, rivers, and so forth, with all the current cities, also the colonies / and all the historic Jewish sites and cities, / should use this infrequent opportunity and go to the cinematograph “Sphinx,” Zielona 2, where will be shown, for the first time in Łódź, the wonderful picture, / “The life of the Jews in Palestine” / in the following 46 sections, with 250 scenes: / 1) The life of the Jews in the Land of Israel, / 2) The journey to the Land of Israel, / 3) On the way from Odessa to Jaffa, / 4) Jaffa and Tel Aviv, / 5) The women’s seminary and girls’ school, / 6) The Jaffa Gymnasium and the walk of the students, / 7) “Petah Tikva” and “Ein Ganim,” / 8) The picking of oranges in “Petah Tikva,” / 9) The colony “Hadera,” / 10) The colony “Zikhorn Ya’akov,” / 11) Work in the vineyards, / 12) Haifa seen from the peak of “Carmel,” / 13) Work in the Haifa technical school, / 14) The farm “Kinneret,” / 15) The Yemeni Jews, / 16) Tiberius, / 17) The tomb of Rabbi Meyer Balanes, / 18) Maimonides’ tomb / 19) The Moscow firm “Megadl,” / 20) The colony “Rosh Pina”, / 21) The almond harvest, / 22) Safed, / 23) On the way to Jerusalem, / 24) The Judean Mountains and Samson’s grave, / 25) The city of Jerusalem. / 26) King David’s Gate, / 27) The Western Wall, / 28) The tombs of the Sanhedrin and Simeon the Just’s tomb, / 29) The tomb of Absalom, the tomb of Zechariah the Prophet, and the place of the lepers, / 30) The location of the Temple (the mosque Omer [the Dome of the Rock?]), / 31) The students of “Help” [?], / 32) The Bezalel Academy, / 33) Rachel’s tomb, / 34) Hebron, / 35) King Solomon’s well, / 36) The Cave of the Patriarchs, / 37) Old Jericho and Elisha’s Spring, / 38) New Jericho, / 39) The Dead Sea and the Jordan River, / 40) The colony “Rishon Lezion” and Carmel wine cellar, / 41) The colony Wadi Hunayn, / 42) The [???]-tidy woman in Wadi Hunayn, / 43) The 80-year anniversary of the “Bilu” in Gedera, / 44) The first Bilu pioneers, / 45) The colony Ekron, / 46) The Passover holiday in “Rekhovot.” / Begins at 3 PM. Price 30 and 40 kopeks. Loges 50 kopeks.