Metadata: [Cinema Fond]
Collection
- Country:
- Ukraine
- Holding institution:
- V. H. Pshenychnyi Central State Cinema, Photography, and Sound Archive of Ukraine
- Holding institution (official language):
- Центральний державний кінофотофоноархів України ім. Г.С. Пшеничного
- Postal address:
- 03110, м. Київ-110, вул. Солом'янська, 24
- Phone number:
- 380 (44) 275-37-77
- Web address:
- tsdkffa.archives.gov.ua
- Email:
- tsdkffa@arch.gov.ua
- Title:
- [Cinema Fond]
- Title (official language):
- [Кинофонд]
- Date(s):
- 1896/1999
- Language:
- Russian
- English
- Ukrainian
- French
- Extent:
- 12,284 storage units
- Type of material:
- Moving images
- Scope and content:
- Cinematic documents pertaining to Jewish history and culture include the documentary Anti-Jewish Pogroms (Berlin, 1919-20, black and white, in two parts; captions are in English and French), about violence committed against Jews during the Civil War period by Ukrainian rebels, Red Army units, Polish forces, and members of various armed formations (those of Atamans Grigor’ev, Zelenyi, Struk, and others) in cities and towns of Ukraine (Zhitomir, Kiev, Korosten’, Cherkassy, Boguslav, Zhashkov, Rrzhishchev, Slovechno, Tarashcha, Chernobyl’, etc.). There are particular documentary pieces from the Soviet years describing anti-religious propaganda and the struggle against Judaism: the closing of synagogues in Vinnitsa and Medzhibozh (1927-29); the repurposing of a synagogue as a house of culture in Samara (1929); an anti-religious demonstration by “Jewish toilers” in Proskurov (1929); and a subbotnik [an unpaid volunteer collective workday] scheduled during the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashana in Kiev (1930); pieces on pioneers from Moscow learning about the everyday life of persons participating in the Jewish resettlement movement in the Krivoi Rog area (1929); on the fifth anniversary of the Jewish children’s colony in Nemirov (1929); and students in classes at the Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Metallurgical Technicum (1938). Several of the pieces are devoted to culture, literature, and art: the opening of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences’ Department of Jewish Culture in Kiev (1928); welcoming remarks by Solomon Mikhoels to actors of the Berlin Youth Theater at a train station in Odessa (1930); the “Sholom Aleichem Jubilee” (20 April 1939); Il’ia Ehrenburg reading his poems during a meeting of Ukrainian and Jewish writers (19 May 1941; among his listeners were P. I. Panch, Pavlo Tychyna, V. N. Sosiura, Itzik Fefer, and David Hofshtein). The Holocaust is touched upon to varying degrees in the documentaries Atrocities of the German-Fascist Invaders (1945) and Babi Yar (1981, 1989, 1991), which employ newsreels from the Second World War era. There are also examples of Soviet counter-propaganda of an anti-Zionist and anti-Israel nature: on the activities of the Jewish Defense League, the “Israeli Army’s aggression against Lebanon,” etc. (the documentaries No Statute of Limitations and I Want to Tell the Truth, 1981); etc.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Ataman Grigor’ev
- Ataman Struk
- Ataman Zelenyi
- Ehrenburg, Ilya
- Fefer, Itzik
- Hofshtein, David
- Panch, P. I.
- Sholem Aleichem
- Solomon Mikhoels
- Sosiura, V. N.
- Tychyna, Pavlo
- System of arrangement:
- The cinematic journals, documentary films, and newsreels held in the archive are catalogued; the systematisation is largely according to the thematic-chronological principle, with rubrics and sub-rubrics.
- Finding aids:
- A catalogue is available.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Theological Seminary
