Large collection of videos from the Kramer family of Chabad, including video clips of historical events of the Chabad movement in the United States. [New York, ca. late 1920s to 1960s].
The collection contains rare video clips from the first visit of the Rebbe Rayatz to the United States in 1929-1930, and from his arrival in the United States in 1940, his temporary residence in the Greystone hotel in Manhattan and his travel to the resort town Lakewood for Pesach 1940. The collection likewise includes several rare video clips of Melaveh Malkah farbrengens in the 1930s-1940s held in the home of the Kramer brothers and in the Jewish Center in Manhattan. Two Melaveh Malkah farbrengens were attended by the famous Chassidic emissary R. Itzele Masmid – one farbrengen in 1933 and another in 1935; several farbrengens are attended by R. Shemaryahu Gurary (the Rashag), the famous Chassidic emissary R. Mordechai Chefetz and others.
[Most of the clips from the Rebbe Rayatz's of Lubavitch arrival in the United States in 1930 and 1940 were published in the film America is No Different by the Chabad media group JEM. However, the present collection also includes several short video clips of the Rebbe Rayatz that have never before been published, as well as video clips from the Melaveh Malkah farbrengens, most of which have not been published].
In addition, the collection contains tens of video clips of the Kramer family, where the family members can be seen in various events and gatherings, some of which also show American Chabad Chassidim. One of the videos contains clips from the visit of lawyer R. Yekutiel ("Sam") Kramer in Eretz Israel in the mid-1920s, and his meeting with leaders and important figures of the Old Yishuv.
The videos and clips are saved on video tapes, CDs and digital memory cards; some are also saved on the original film. Varying size and condition. The collection has not been thoroughly examined, and is being sold as is.
