Fritz Bauer Institut · Cinematography of the Holocaust


Lamp Unto My Feet // The Hungarian Jew: Spirit in Survival. D: [?] [US, 1965]

ID

FBW002824      TV series

Country / Year

USA, 1965

Original Title

Lamp Unto My Feet // The Hungarian Jew: Spirit in Survival

Directed by

[?]

Produced by

CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System), New York, NY

Staff

Executive producer: George Crothers

Appearance

Heinrich Fisch (Rabbi, Tabak Synagogue); Jeno Schuck (Rabbi, Hungarian Orthodox Rabbinate, President); Geza Seifert (Central Board of Hungarian Jews, Vice President); Endre Sos (Central Board of Hungarian Jews, President)

Length

30'

Format

16mm/sw/1:1,37

Dates

- 13 Jun 1965: Premiere, TV, CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)

Abstract

The history and present-day conditions of the Jewish community in Budapest.

Subject Terms

1940-1949; 1950-1959; 1960-1969; Budapest; Jewish communities; Hungary

Bibliography

- Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: K.G. Hall, 1976
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches: Television and the Holocaust in the United States, from 1945 to the Present. New York, NY: Columbia University (Dissertation), 1995
- Shandler, Jeffrey: While America Watches. Televising the Holocaust. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999