Produced and Directed by
Menachem Daum
Oren Rudavsky
Edited by
Ruth Schell
Director of Photography
Oren Rudavsky
Written by
Menachem Daum
Robert Seidman
Narrated by
Leonard Nimoy
Sarah Jessica Parker
Executive Producer
Arnold Labaton
Associate Producers
Martin Dornbaum
Sari Fensterheim
Immy Humes
Sound
Gautam Choudhury
William Sarokin
Matthew Sigal
Archival Research
Roberta Newman
Music
Yale Strom
Assistant Editor
Sari Fensterheim
Additional Camera
Wayne de la Roche
Martin Dornbaum
Eugene Marner
Mark Peterson
Masha Soloviona
Rinato Tonelli
Assistant Camera
Joe Arcidiacono
Moishe Ben-Yaish
Sam Henriquez
Robert Sands
James Williams
Additional Sound
Felix Andrew
Paul Bang
Jon Gurrin
Judy Karp
Matthew Price
Jeffrey Pullman
Steven Robinson
Tom Yore
Stephen Zelonka
Sound and Music Editor
Stuart Stanley
Assistant Sound Editor
Brian Langman
Sound Mixer
Reilly Steele
Musicians
Ishmael Butera - Accordian
Mark Dresser - Bass
Norbert Stachel - Clarinet, Saxaphone, Piccolo, Kavel
Yale Strom - Violin
Cantorial Renditions
Cantor David Werdyger
Russia/Ukraine
Production Associates
Julia Ivanova
Sergei Zerik
National Endowment for the Humanities
Barbara Sirota
Jerri Shephard
Virginia Field
Stills
F-Stop
Negative Cutter
J.G. Films
Color Timer
David Pultz
Jane Tolmachyou
Opticals
BB Optics
Cinema Arts
The Efx House
Duart
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Special Thanks
The Gold Family
The Horowitz Family
The Lazar Family
The Lubart Family
The Naiman Family
Zeldy Abramowitz
Rabbi Moshe Yehuda Berkowitz
Professor David Fishman
Pearl Gluck
Henya Gottesman
Nuta Kaufman
Malke Klein
Idy Grunbaum
Professor Arthur Hertzberg
Moishe Levertov
Mayer Schiller
Archival Sources:
ABC News Video Source
Archive Films
Beit Lohamei Haghetaot
Shaul Shimon Deutsch
Film/Audio Services
Fox Movietone
Gold Family
Steve Frankel
Image Bank
Jewish Chatauqua Society
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Luboml Exhibition Project
National Archives
National Center for Jewish Film
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
Photographs courtesy of
The Deren Family
Jerome Mintz
Irving Hertzberg
Moshe D. Yarmish
Paintings courtesy of:
Professor Halina Nelkin
National Museum in Crakow
National Museum in Warsaw
Upper Silesian Museum, Bytom
Jewish Theological Seminary, New York
Additional Support
Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture
New York State Council for the Arts
New York Humanities Council
National Foundation for Jewish Culture
Sidney Stern Memorial Foundation
Bookkeeper
Rifke Daum
Additional Music credits
Zmiros Yisrael
Songs of Hasidim in Yiddish
Melitzer Chassidic Zmiros
Cantor David Werdyger
Aderet Record Co.
New York, New York
Written by
Kander and Ebb
Published by EMI UNART
Down South Camp Meeting
Written by Irving Mills and Fletcher Henderson
Published by EMI MILLS
Performed by Benny Goodman and His Orchestra
© 1987 BMG Music
Shot on Eastman
Stereo provided by
Ultrasound
Copyright © 1997 Oren Rudavsky Productions and Menachem Daum
