If you are not from our community: Mr. Jacob Bruer was the son of Rav Bruer. He was a beloved educator and was the principal for many yers. He was a student of the famed Wurzburg Seminary. He made Aliyah and spent his last twenty years in Jerusalem.
There is no sound. Here we are playing stickball on Bennett Avenue. Mr. Breuer o.b.m. is seen talking with Rabbi Raphael Wallerstien hblch’t. At the end a student is accosted by his classmates for waving a NY Met’s hat.
Lifted from someone’s family movies. We see the Carlebach Shul on the West Side. The Rav – R. Hartwig Carlebach, father of the famous singer, emerges from the shul. Also includes Washington Heights footage.
Photo and video montage for the closing of Gideon’s after a long history in Frankfurt and Washington Heights. A short clip taken with the express discontent of the Director of an excellent documentary on our community in the 1980s-here is a link to purchase the film https://www.amazon.com/We-Were-So-Beloved/dp/B000BVM23G
This is not about the Kehilla. It is about the photographer whose archives- in storage for many years- fill the videos on this channel. If you don’t like mushy family things…skip this.
