Lodż Hot Gehuljet. Łódź Hulała (Łódź, the city, was crazy). The Image of Cinema and the Culture of Attractions in „Lodzer Tageblat” from 1908 to 1914 Cover Image

Lodż hot gehuljet. Łódź hulała. Obraz kina i kultury atrakcji w żydowskiej gazecie codziennej 'Lodzer Tageblat' w latach 1908-1914
Lodż Hot Gehuljet. Łódź Hulała (Łódź, the city, was crazy). The Image of Cinema and the Culture of Attractions in „Lodzer Tageblat” from 1908 to 1914

Author(s): Martyna Steckiewicz
Subject(s): Anthropology, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Cultural history, Jewish studies, Media studies, Civil Society, Communication studies, Social history, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Rural and urban sociology, Sociology of Culture, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Marketing / Advertising, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; Lodzer Tageblat; newspapers; media; journalism; Jews; jewish culture; entertainment; yiddish;asimilation;

Summary/Abstract: Lodz is a perfect example of the industrial, multiethnic city, which was developing very intensively during the XIX century. The changes concerned also the social structure and lifestyle of its inhabitants. Creating of the new ideas and cultural customs affected the morals and principles. Jews as a constituted group of city residents, were experiencing those changes as well. Systematically they took part in urban everyday life and became the attractive customer for the local entertainment industry. The article presents the analysis of the reception of early cinema in the Yiddish local newspaper „Lodzer Tageblat”, for the first time published in 1908. The presence of announcements and advertisements proves that Jews constituted an important part of Lodz’s audience in premises offering different entertainment programs. By putting reception of early cinema to the context of all other municipal entertainments offered by the local theatres, circus and cinematographs, I refer to to other research in early movie‐going in Łódź.

  • Issue Year: 37/2013
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 62-77
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish