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Summary
[Orthodox Jewish Village Life & Wedding, Eastern Europe]
Footage Information
Source | Archive Films by Getty Images |
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Title: | [Orthodox Jewish Village Life & Wedding, Eastern Europe] |
File Number: | DN-LB-153 Beta SP |
Color: | B W |
Type: | Newsreel |
Year: | 1933 |
Subjects: | Religion - Jewish - Orthodox - Hassidic - Wedding - Rabbi; Village - Europe - Pre-WWII; Cotton - Spinning; Music - Choir - Children - Israeli National Hymn; Dance - Ethnic - Hora; Education - School - Yeshiva; Bicycle; Crowd; Bookseller; Chanting; Language - Yiddish |
Description: | 03:21:47:00 - 03:30:39:00 B W 1933 Czechoslovakia, Mukacevo Ukraine, Mukachevo Hungary, Munkacs Children on bicycles wearing sashes of blessings for the wedding. Procession through dense crowd, restrained by police, of groom (from orthodox jewish Rabinovich dynasty) and Rabbi C.L. Spira. Rabbi Spira speaks to camera in Yiddish, urges Jews in America to religiously observe the sabbath. More procession of groom. Brief procession of bride (from Spira dynasty) and ladies-in-waiting through crowd. Nighttime shot of wedding surrounded and obscured by crowd. Small band plays festive music under wedding canopy. Wedding of the union of the Rabinovich and Spira dynasties reportedly witnessed by 100,000 people. Children's choir sing (what is now) the Israeli national hymn. Children of yeshiva school chant bible verses committed to memory. EXT Rabbi Spira's house. Staged scene of bookseller speaking with young hasidic boy. Cotton spinning at textile shopkeeper's store. Children of school dance the hora (multiple shots). Village was at the time called Mukacevo, part of Czechoslovakia. In 1938 it was transferred to Hungary as the town of Munkacs. It is now called Mukachevo and is part of Ukraine. Spira, Rabbi C.L. Rabinovich |