Typical documentary music of the period, with observations that a slum looks like a slum. Lots of contradictions too. One minute saying that they don't spend their money on better houses and live in squalour, and the next complaining that they move into mansions...
shareBoring.... and ludicrous.
The contradictions are obvious enough.
Significantly the Jews shown are the ones least attractive -- the elderly men with traditional clothing and beards, the ones who would look alien anywhere other than a Jewish community that lives in a medieval culture. Such people clearly do not want a gentile in-law of any kind.
Obviously not shown are:
1. Attractive young Jewish women. It is now clear that many of the attractive women on the beach at Tel Aviv are descended from people in ghettos like these... yet few women, especially young ones, are shown.
2. Cute kids, especially those showing the promise of great learning.
3. Normal family life. Enough said.
But what could one expect when such was the only window that was offered?
@brower8
I am older gentleman born in the 1970's. When you have written "the Jews shown are the ones least attractive -- the elderly men"
That does not fill me with much hope.
Another theme... Jews are shown dealing rather than doing 'honest work'. But isn't retail trade a good way to get rich if one does well? The irrelevance of the trading was that the Germans had already wrecked the Polish economy.
Jews formed much of what had been the middle class of Poland (one obviously did not need to be a Jew to be a victim of Hitlerism), which begs the question of how much of the misery was the result of Nazi plunder of a country that began upon conquest. Wreck the middle class of a country (as the Bolsheviks did in Russia), and middle-class habits become more pitiable than successful.