Anniversary of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.355.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3108 | Film ID: 2487

Overview

Description: "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 33. This is a propaganda newsreel, therefore the language is pro-Stalinist.

Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1939. Meeting, speakers, various.Itzik Fefer..CU of newspaper. Portraits on a wall, from left to right: Taras Shevchenko, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Sholem Aleichem.

Workers from the capital of Soviet Ukraine celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem. An honored poet, David Gofshtein, addresses the audience with an interesting and lively story about the life and work of Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem's brother speaks about the writer's miserable life in tsarist Russia. Honored poet Yddish Itzik Fefer and Ukrainian poet Volodymyr Sosyura deliver moving speeches.

Partial translation of narration: "The Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem has become a great means of exposure of Stalin's ideal of friendship among the peoples of the Soviet Union."
Film Title: Soviet Ukraine Kino Journal #33
Duration: 00:00:56
Date: Event: 1939 April 20
Production: 1939
Locale: Ukraine
Kyiv (Kiev), Soviet Union
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of TSDKFFA
Contributor: Subject: Sholem Aleichem
Subject:

Language: Ukrainian
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Mixed
Time Code: 00:01:22:00 to 00:02:18:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2488 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2488 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2488 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2487 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Master 2488 Video: Betacam SP - PAL - large
Preservation
Preservation 2487 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2487 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2487 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2487 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Keyword: CEREMONIES JEWISH LIFE (PRE-WAR) JEWS LENIN, VLADIMIR MEMORIALS NEWSPAPERS PAINTINGS PROPAGANDA SOVIET UNION SPEECHES STALIN, JOSEPH UKRAINE UKRAINIANS WOMEN WORKERS WRITERS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection of moving image segments from the Central State Film, Photo and Sound Archive (https://tsdkffa.archives.gov.ua) at the Ukraine National Archives in Kiev, Ukraine in 2001.
Note: This is a propaganda newsreel, therefore the language is pro-Stalinist.

Includes: David Gofshtein, Itzik Fefer, and Volodymyr Sosyura
Copied From: 35mm
Film Source: Central State Film and Photo Archive of Ukraine
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3412
Source Archive Number: 54
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive