ID

FBW003546      Short documentary

Country / Year

USA, 1956

Original Title

That's My Wife

Directed by

Stephen L. Sharff

Produced by

Hadassah, the Women's International Zionist Organisation of America, Inc., New York, NY

Staff

Producer: Stephen L. Sharff; Script: Mina Brownstone; Narration: Athena Lorde, Jim Boles

Appearance

Rebecca Shulman; Judith Epstein; Etta Rosensohn; Miriam Freund; Bertha Schoolman; Rose Rose; Mina Brownstone; Hazel Greenwald

Length

28'

Format

16mm/farbe/1:1,37

Abstract

Opens with a husband's of his incomprehensible wife who is always rushing off to a Hadassah meeting. Explains what motivates her, what are the Hadassah aims, and how they function. Seen are Rebecca Shulman, Judith Epstein, Etta Rosensohn, Miriam Freund, Bertha Schoolman, model of Ein Kerem. National Board meeting. Rose Halperin, Mina Brownstone, Hazel Greenwald. Color sequence in Israel. Ya'al volunteer. Seligsberg School. Beading work. Streets of the Prophets, Youth Aliya settlement. Jerusalem corridor. Mother and Child station. Ein Kerem. Picnic on foundation. Hospital courtyard with book distribution. Child with rickets. Volunteers making bandages. Reading to blind. Amniocentisis testing. Yemenite. Birth in background. Back to chapter meeting.

Subject Terms

1950-1959; Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America; Israel; Jerusalem; Youth Aliyah

Holdings

- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Jerusalem: 28'; 16mm

Bibliography

- Antonini, Josephine S.: Educational Film Guide. 1954-1958, New York, NY: H.W. Wilson Company, 1958