Echoes from a ghost Minyan the Jews of South Philadelphia

written and narrated by Joseph Van Blunk ; directed and produced by Joseph Van Blunk and Gustave Rosanio.
Contributor:
Resource Type:
Video
Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : Longshore Films, [1998]
Copyright Notice:
1998
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Availability

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Call Number Description Type Availability
F158.9.J5 E256x 1998 DVD

Details

Sound characteristics:
  • digital
  • optical
Digital file characteristics:
  • video file
  • DVD video
Note:
  • DVD.
  • Executive producer, The Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center ; camera, Gerald Sherretta ; edited by Dave Schwarz ; music by Mike Cottrill.
Summary:
On February 22, 1882 the S.S. Illinois docked at the foot of Federal Street on the Delaware River in south Philadelphia. Among the passengers on board were 225 Russian Jewish refugees. By the close of World War I almost 40 years later this trickle of refugees had soared to over 100,000 Jewish immigrants, making South Philadelphia at one time the second largest inner city Jewish neighborhood in North America. This important, flourishing and vastly under documented Jewish community was preceded in size only by New York's Lower East Side. After World War II the Jews began leaving South Philadelphia for other parts of the city and surrounding suburbs. At the close of the century the original Jewish immigrant community of South Philadelphia has dwindled to less than 500 people. Using interviews, archival photographs, home movies and present day footage of the remaining community, this video documents this one thriving Jewish neighborhhod and illuminates the lives of those who once lived, worked and worshiped there.
Subject:
Genre:
LC Classification:
F158.9.J5 E256x 1998
Catalog Record ID:
991023551889703811
Language:
English