Research Catalog

Title

Israel before Israel : silent cinema in the Holy Land / by Hillel Tryster.

Author

Tryster, Hillel

Publication

[Jerusalem] : Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive of the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Central Zionist Archives, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive.

Description

xiii, 226 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Surveys the history of silent cinema as it was developed by Zionists in Ottoman and British mandatory Palestine. the book explores the political (Zionist) motivations and methods behind many of the productions and the early attempt to create an industry based on commercial rather than ideological interests.

Subject

• Silent films > Palestine > History
• Silent films > Palestine > History and criticism
• Motion pictures > Palestine > History
• Motion pictures > Israel > History
• Motion picture industry > Palestine > History
• Motion picture industry > Israel > History
• Jews in motion pictures
• Jews in motion pictures
• Motion picture industry
• Motion pictures
• Silent films
• Stummfilm
• Geschichte
• Motion pictures > Eretz Israel > History
• Silent films > Eretz Israel > History
• Israel
• Middle East > Palestine
• Palästina

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-220) and index.

Contents

1. The Ottoman Era -- 2. Yaacov Ben Dov: The Rediscovered Pioneer -- 3. Joseph Gal-Ezer: A Force for Film -- 4. The Jewish National Fund: How the Movies Helped Buy a Country -- 5. The Palestine Foundation Fund: Showing Eretz Israel to the World -- 6. The Second Wave: Segal, Axelrod, Agadati and Halachmi -- 7. The Narrative Film -- 8. Loose Ends

ISBN

• 0851706150
• 9780851706153

LCCN

96177266

OCLC

• ocm35179920
• 35179920
• SCSB-1274462

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library