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The shvitz / Jonathan Berman.
LIBRA Videorecording 159
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baths.
- Baths, Russian.
- Jewish way of life.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (46 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY (396 3rd Ave., New York, N.Y. 10016) : Jonathan Berman Productions, [1994]
- System Details:
- VHS [NTSC]
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Documentary film of history, operation and cultural importance of Jewish and Russian bathhouses in and around New York City including famous bath house row on Coney Island.
- Credits:
- Director/producer, Jonathan Berman ; cinematographers, Laurence Salzman, Evan Estern ; music, Frank London.
- Notes:
- Includes archival footage.
- Shvitz is Yiddish for steambath or "place where you sweat."
- Videocassette release of a 1993 production.
- OCLC:
- 187433635
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