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Metropolis in Łódź
Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1928 program at the government-run Municipal Educational Cinematograph in Łódź. The main feature advertised was Fritz Lang's newly-completed masterpiece Metropolis. An expressionist dystopia…
Living Pictures at the American Bioscope
Ad from a 1903 calendar, publicizing film presentation in one of the earliest cinematic venues in Łódź, the American Bioscope, owned by the enterprising Krzemiński brothers. Most of the films shown here were the brief but beautifully imaginative…
Tags: cinema
Josephine Baker in Łódź
Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1929 screening of a Josephine Baker film (probably the 1927 Siren of the Tropics) at the movie theater Era in Bałuty. Baker's role of Papitou, an exotic girl who follows her love from the…
Tags: cinema
Josephine Baker in Bałuty
Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1929 screening of a Josephine Baker film (probably the 1927 Siren of the Tropics) at the movie theater Era in Bałuty. Baker's role of Papitou, an exotic girl who follows her love from the…
Tags: cinema
Hamlet at the Scala
Ad from Najer Folksblat publicizing 1926 performances of a Yiddish troupe at the Scala theater in Łódź. The visiting troupe, led by Natalia and Moshe Lipman (both also known from their roles in Yiddish film), performed a stage adaptation of du…
Tags: Yiddish theater
Freak Show
Ad from Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1930 exhibition of curiosities, or "freak shows," as they were known at the time. Here, the focus is on human deformities billed as "wonders of nature."
Tags: itinerant amusements
Film in Variety Shows
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…
Tags: cinema, technology
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.
Tags: cinema, migrations
Election flyer for CHANA BLANKSZTEJN
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…
Tags: politics, women rights