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The fully operational keiserpanorama at the Film Museum in Łódź is one of a handful of original keiserpanoramas built by August Fuhrmann’s firm, which survive until our time. Inside the wooden case, a revolving mechanism projects images on glass…

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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…

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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…

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Pfeiffer’s photograph of a paved marketplace, with St. Mary’s Church in the background. The picture frame is packed with shopping and vending people. Looking at it we can almost hear the sound of a bustling bazaar. In the foreground, we see a…

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During the interwar period numerous newspapers were published in Polish and Yiddish to meet the needs of diverse readerships. Haynt, Vort, Folks-tsaytung, Moment, Szpilki, Nasz Przegląd, and Letste Nayes are being sold at this newsstand.

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Mania Piwnik met Zanvel Goldberg in 1937, while he was on a spring break from his military service. When they met for their first date, the took a long walk to the Julianów Park, located north of the Jewish quarter. In this recording excerpt, they…