Private Films, Public Identities: Jewish Self-Representations in Hungarian and Polish Interwar Home Movies

Interwar home movies made by the substantial Hungarian Jewish bourgeoisie and by Polish American Jews traveling to Poland -- mostly for private consumption-- offer rare insight into the way the Jewish middle class fashioned and presented their identities in public well into the 1930s. Dr. Anna Manchin, Prins Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, will present her new research on the meaning of these fascinating home movies as she completes her manuscript Jewish Identity, National Culture and Comedy Films in Interwar Hungary.