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Image before my eyes a history of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust

Jewish Poland before the Holocaust was the largest and most important center of Jewish culture in the world. The rich, variegated texture of Jewish life is told through rare films, stills, interviews and music.

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  • "History of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust"

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  • "Jewish Poland before the Holocaust was the largest and most important center of Jewish culture in the world. The rich, variegated texture of Jewish life is told through rare films, stills, interviews and music."@en
  • "Presents a photographic history of Jewish life in Poland in the 1920s and 1930s. Includes historic footage and stills and voice-over recollections as visuals document Polish Jews' patriotism in World War I, the postwar surge in anti-Semitism, the vitality of the Yiddish theater, the political activism of Jewish youth in the 1930s, the disastrous determination of most of Poland's Jews to weather the Nazi storm, and Germany's invasion in 1939."@en
  • "Jewish Poland before the Holocaust was the largest and most important center of Jewish culture in the world. The rich, variegated texture of Jewish life is told through rare films, stills, interviews and music. As one survivor says of the period preceding the destruction of Polish Jews: "We ... lived a life above our lives." Image Before My Eyes gives ample testimony to this insight. A unique document that sensitively and lovingly resurrects the past. Based on the YIVO exhibit and book of the same title."@en
  • "Jewish Poland before its destruction was the largest and most important Center of Jewish culture and creativity in the world."@en
  • "This documentary vividly recreates Jewish life in Poland from the late nineteenth century through the 1930's using rare film footage, memorabilia, photographs, music, and interviews."
  • "This documentary vividly recreates Jewish life in Poland from the late nineteenth century through the 1930's using rare film footage, memorabilia, photographs, music, and interviews."@en
  • "Through rare films originally taken as "home movies" by those who returned to visit Poland in the 1930's as well as photographs, memorabilia, music and interviews with survivors of the lost culture, the film vividly recreates Jewish life in Poland from the late 19th century through the 1930's. Focuses on the various aspects of Polish Jewish life before the Holocaust - the rich and the poor, the religious and the secular, the city and the shtetl as well as the varying political tendencies."
  • "Summary: Up to the outbreak of World War II, there were some 3 1/2 million Jews in Poland. They were a people with a 900 year history, with established traditions and a distinctive way of life. Using graphics, still photographs and inique film footage, this documentary depicts Jewish life in Poland from 1900 to 1939. It starts with the experiences of those who lived in the country and then moves on to the cities, especially Warsaw, Cracow, Lodz and Vilna. The visuals are augmented by interviews with individuals who survived the holocaust and now live in the United States. Building on their reminiscences, it discusses social life, religion, education, culture and the many political factions, leading up to the rising tide of anti-semitism. The result is a fascinating mosaic that conveys a very specific way of life in such a manner that it becomes a major ethnographic study."
  • "A photographic history of Jews in Poland between the two World Wars that pays homage to the dynamic and vibrant society of 3.5 million people that was destroyed during the Holocaust."@en
  • ""This documentary, first released in 1980, offers a window into the vitality of Polish Jewry before the Holocaust. The film directs its lens at all aspects of that now-vanished world, showing us a diverse community and culture. It encompasses city and shtetl, rich and poor, secular and spiritual, politics and society, all permeated by the distinctive character and values that developed in the Polish-Jewish community over nearly a millennium"--Study guide, p. 1."
  • "This documentary vividly recreates Jewish life in Poland from the late nineteenth century through the 1930's."@en
  • "Through home movies, photographs, memorabilia, music, and interviews with survivors of the Holocaust, this documentary recreates Jewish life from the 1800's through the 1930's."@en
  • "Documentary in English, also Yiddish and Polish with English voice over translation. ages: 11 to adult."@en
  • "Explores Jewish life and culture in Poland prior to the Nazi occupation of 1939-1945, through archival film and photographs, music, and interviews with survivors."@en

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  • "Nonfiction television programs"@en
  • "Pictorial works"@en
  • "Documentary television programs"@en
  • "Documentary television programs"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Documentary"@en
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  • "Image before my eyes a history of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust"@en
  • "Image before my eyes [jüdisches Leben vor dem Holocaust]"
  • "Image before my eyes"@en
  • "Image before my eyes"
  • "Image Before My Eyes"

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