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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 Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1930 screening of The Jazz Singer at the movie theater Splendid in Łódź. As the first cinema with a permanent sound-film setup, Splendid was the ideal venue to screen the first full-feature…

The paths of the Goldbergs’ ancestors have been reconstructed through meticulous archival research. These documents tell a story that goes back to the late 18th century. We follow members of a handful of families as they seek new life in a dynamic…

Aaron Hekelman, better known by his stage name Albert Harris, wrote and recorded “The Forgotten Little Street” in 1944, while the Nazis were completing the final chapter in the annihilation of Polish Jewry. Forced as a Jew to seek refuge in Soviet…