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A Yiddish World Remembered - The Emmy Award Winning PBS Documentary by Andrew Goldberg

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The DVD presents a beautiful yet balanced view of the Eastern European Jewish World before the Holocaust. This world was imbued with the spiritual and religious treasures of Jewish civilization, and bound together by the polyglot language, Yiddish. Visual remnants, including 'motion pictures' and interviews with the few remaining survivors from the area and period discussed, are included: these remove this forgotten world from the realm of rosy-hued myth, yet reveal the real loss our world suffered when this part of it was murdered.

I knew little of Jewish life but was always interested to learn. This documentary only deepened my love for the Jewish people.

This is an excellent video to watch for anyone interested in what Poland was like before the Holocaust.

we have already seen it on PBS and thought it absolutely wonderful!
Which made it an easy choice to give as a gift, although without amazon.com I never would have been able to order it...

So thanks, once again, to amazon.com as well as the entire crew who made this award winning documentary....Susan

I watched two DVDs last night - one was the remarkable Image Before My Eyes - A History of Jewish Life in Poland Before which was a well put-together documentary of Jewish life in Poland prior to the Holocaust. The other was "A Yiddish World Remembered", an amazing production that provides insights into the rich cultural heritage that existed in parts of Eastern Europe, mainly Poland prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, and the Holocaust. A vibrant community of 3.5 million Jews lived in Poland before the horrors of the Holocaust, and there were only about 250,000 left at the end of the war. This documentary examines the primary language of the Jews in Eastern Europe,i.e. Yiddish which bound the people together. Archival film footage and real life interviews with survivors make this a compelling watch.

A whole world disappears and it is impossible to find out about who we were, except for some old family photographs and songs here and there. No DVD will make up for that enormous loss but this helps a bit.

While I cannot say that this was an enjoyable television experience, it was certainly well done and provided some new insights into the recent history of European Jewry that I had not known before. It is just the kind of thing that should be passed along to one's children and grandchildren lest they forget their roots if they are Jewish, and to remind those who are not of the cruel and inhuman sides of nationalism and the wars that territorial acquisition promotes in the name of some imagined racial or ethnic superiority.

It reminds me of my family stories and where they grew up, what they went through and how they rose up to be successful. I was born very late so I didn't experience the same.
Dennis Alweiss

You don't have to be Jewish in order to like this, you just have to be open minded and curious, which I am about a-lot of things. First saw this video series back in 2002, but never purchased it back then. I came across it by accident on Amazon, purchased it and it came fast and in good condition. The picture quality is TOP notch, HD quality, a great purchase for a very low price.

We cannot go forward without going back. There is a need to know as a people our roots,our history. It matters not your religious beliefs or your heritage, the need to know to look back and remember is something we all experience. It is a way to honor all that has gone before. Some say forget the past, but it is not possible. We are our own history. This film was what that I had hoped for. I have a passion for history. And in particular those that have suffered in a way that seems to defy what is just.