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November 17, 1978 - Image 8

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1978-11-17

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

8 Friday, November 11, 1918

YIVO Filming Documentary on Pre-Holocaust .Jewry

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By BEN GALLOB

NEW YORK (JTA) —
The first English-language

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spices of the YIVO Institute
for Jewish Research with
documentary for American the aid of nearly $110,000 in
television showing the cul- grants from the National
ture and pre-Holocaust Endowment for the
Jewish life in Poland is now Humanities.
Joseph Waletsky, an in-
dependent film-maker and
a YIVO research associate,
and Jerome Radanes, of
New York, a film writer, re-
cently completed a script
For Appointment Call
based on a YIVO exhibit
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and album, "Image Before
My Eyes." Waletsky said a
$90,000 NEH grant is for
the production, which has
the same title, on which the
NEH made a commitment
this past summer. The other
$20,000 was granted previ-
ously for preparation for the
script. The finished
documentary is scheduled
to be ready next summer.
As now planned, the
-
documentary will run 80
minutes. Waletsky said he
did not expect the unusual
length to be a barrier to
Public TV acceptance.

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that the film will be made
available to educational
institutions and
synagogues. He said
about two-thirds of the
documentary is in black
and white, the rest in
color. The color material
is mainly interviews with
survivors. There is some
Yiddish, Polish and Rus-
sian conversation by
camera subjects in film-

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making in New York but
there is a running En-
glish commentary
throughout.

Mrs. Hannah Fryshdo•f,
YIVO assistant director,
said one of the aims of the
documentary is to dispel
some of the "widely-held
misconceptions" about
pre-Holocaust Eastern
European Jewry." She said
"popular portrayals have
too often stressed and
romanticized the isolated,
rustic, impoverished Jewish
life" and have not given
enough attention to "either
geographic differentiation
or to the connection with
contemporary non-Jewish
culture."
Waletsky said that many
modern developments were
taking place in Poland bet-
ween World War I and
World War II which most
European Jewish immig-
rants — pouring into the

United States between 1881
and 1921 — could not have
known about.
He said the film will
begin with a detailed look at
20th Century pre-Holocaust
Jewish life in Warsaw, the
capital for both Jews and
Poles alike. He said it will
delineate and examine trad-
itional Jewish life in Poland
and trace the effects on
Polish Jewry of such major
political events as the 150-
year partition of Poland,
World War I, and the crea-
tion of the second Polish re-
public in 1918.

In addition, he said, the
documentary will
explore the develop-
ments and conflicts in the
political, social and cul-
tural life of the Jewish
community in the 20-year
period of the Polish re-
public.

Waletsky said no ap-

Article Describes Havurot

By BEN GALLOB

(Copyright 1978, JTA, Inc.)

A havura in Baltimore
has been described as typi-
cal of the Jewish fellowship,
movement which_ two Bal-
timore Jewish newswriters
have asserted developed in
the late 1960s and early
1970s when student
radicalism was coming to an
end.
Described as "a meeting
place for Jews from Reform,
Conservative and Orthodox
backgrounds," by Barbara
Pash and Marc Silver,
havurot were listed as hav-
ing taken root in large
urban communities
throughout the United
States. The two writers for
the Baltimore Jewish Times
described the development
in an issue of "Present
Tense," a quarterly issued
by the American Jewish
Committee.
- They reported that some
havurot are residential, like
Boston's Havurot Shalom.
Others, like the Westwood
Free Minyan in Los
Angeles, "meet on the Sab-
bath and holidays for
prayer, study and celebra-
tion," they reported. They
said there is a National As-
sociation of Havurot and
Assorted Simhas, which
has a newspaper, "Kesher"
and which sponsors inter-
havura retreats several
times a year at a New Jer-
sey farm.

Members of different
havurot keep in touch
"and some meet at a
yearly unofficial
convention-retreat in
Pennsylvania. Similarly,
there is no central system
of belief." Some of the fel-
lowships "are deeply
traditional; others are
shockingly innovative.
But all members have one
trait in common — they
have made a commitment
to Judaism on their
own."

The two newswriters
cited a number of examples
of how the havura member
carries out the commitment
stated by one of them as "I
want to be a Jew and I want
it on my terms." But the

variety of backgrounds, ex-
periences and motivations
of the members described in
the report are so disparate
that no single member could
be called representative of
the total membership.

proach had yet been made to
Public Broadcasting Ser-
vice in regard to booking the
documentary. He said
YIVO officials wanted to get
a fairly complete documen-
tary finished before seeking
to have it booked, but stres-
sed that part of the YIVO
agreement with the NEH
was that the film is to be
offered initially to PBS. _

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