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Ad from Lodzer Tageblat publicizing the screening of the 1914 film Cleopatra, the first American full feature. Helen Gardner played the title role.

Collage of scenes from In poylishe velder (In Polish Forests)

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat announcing driving courses. The Talmud-Torah Artisan School, established in Łódź by progressive Jews at the end of the 19th century, provided vocational and humanities education to Jewish youth.

The patriarch of a large family of weavers that settled in Łódź and Pabianice, David Wolf Abbe was the first Jew to have been received as a master in the Weavers’ Guild. He has also been credited by historians with the discovery of a new method of…

“Di poylishe un yidishe velder” (“Polish and Jewish Forests”). Article.

Ad from Ilustrowana Republika publicizing performances of favorite artists of the Yiddish stage—Shimen Dzigan, Israel Shumacher, and Menashe Oppenheim among them. During 1938, the ensemble toured central Poland with this popular show.

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1929 screening of East and West at the movie theater Bajka in Bałuty. Completed in 1923, East and West, Molly Picon's earliest film, tells the lighthearted story of a "modern" New York Jew…

The Jewish Democratic Folk Bloc (Żydowski Demokratyczny Blok Ludowy), represented the Jewish Folkists (Yidishe folkspartei), progressive party with a middle class, craftsmen, and intelligentsia base, who endorsed the use of Yiddish language and…

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.

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Lodzer Tageblatt publicizing a 1910 screening of two short films in the theater Modern in Łódź. In the early years of cinema, films were often shown within variety and magic shows. In this case, two typical film…