Song of the Lodz ghetto / Seventh Art Releasing presents ; Sun-Street Productions ; a documentary film by David Kaufman ; produced, directed and written by David Kaufman.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-0132

Overview

Format: Video
Published: Toronto : Sun-Street Productions, 2010
Locale: Poland
Łódź
Other Authors/Editors: Kaufman, David, 1948-
Schultz, Albert, 1963-
Brave Old World (Musical group)
Seventh Art Releasing (Firm)
Sun-Street Productions.
Notes: In English, Hebrew & Yiddish with English subtitles.

Klezmer supergroup Brave Old World's haunting musical program of songs from the Lodz ghetto is the framework on which producer/director David Kaufman has created his definitive new documentary on the Lodz ghetto. It features extensive interviews from the survivors of the Holocaust from Lodz. It focuses on the lives of two historical figures: the beloved and popular street-singer Yankele Herszkowicz, whose remarkable songs lifted the spirits of the Jews of the ghetto when their lives were full of despair and whose own tragic life mirrored the fate of Polish Jewry; and the despotic, Nazi-appointed Jewish leader of the ghetto, Chaim Rumkowski. -- Container.

Music performers, Brave Old World ; directors of photography, Robert Holmes, Colin Allison ; video, audio, music editing and mixing, David Kaufman

Narrator: Albert Schultz.

DVD; NTSC; widescreen; PCM stereo.

Language: English Hebrew Yiddish
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Subjects: Jews--Persecutions--Poland--Łódź. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Łódź--Personal narratives. Jews--Poland--Łódź--Biography. Songs, Yiddish--Poland--Łódź--20th century. Klezmer music--Poland--Łódź--20th century. Video recordings. Personal narratives. Biographies. Hershḳoṿiṭsh, Yanḳl,--1910-1972. Rumkowski, Mordecai Ḥayim. Brave Old World (Musical group)

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