Back then he was known as Motl Mendle, a photographer who, on returning to his shtetl, finds an 1896 Lumiere Brothers cinematograph which his now deceased father had bought. |
Featuring projections of images on taleism, of shtetl wanderings and a fresh perspective on music and the soul. |
Photographs of the shtetl and its residents. |
In the new film the gothic chiaroscuro of the shtetl is replaced by the muted colours of the Orthodox section of today's Jerusalem. |
The tale of a drifter who wanders from shtetl to shtetl and finds brief happiness when he falls in love with a shoemaker's daughter in a small Galician town. |
Whistling, like klezmer music, was a shtetl thing to do. Ms Lux and Burstein had met in 1938, when Ms Lux, trained since the age of six at the Yiddish Art Theatre, auditioned for Burstein's tour of Latin America. |