Jewish life in Lemberg

1241

Documentary film

Yiddish with English subtitles

1939

Sound

black and white

Lviv

Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow’s thriving market squares to a piano-and-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as Lemberg and home to an old, well-established Jewish community, this city nestled in a valley projects an aura of prosperity. Parks and pavilions punctuate its public spaces as trucks, pushcarts and bicycles ply its busy streets. Among the Jewish community landmarks shown are the Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building, the Old Ghetto, the softly curving exterior of the Modern Temple, the orthodox school, the Moorish-looking Lazarus Hospital and the grave of the “Golden Rose”—filmed in warm, dappled light—and the Nowosci Theater.

Private collection

The National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University Lown 102, MS053 Waltham MA 02454

FLV (Flash Video), digital video from film tape

Digitized from 35 mm film