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The Life of the Jews in Palestine ( French : La vie des Juifs en Palestine , Hebrew : חיי היהודים בארץ ישראל , Russian : Жизнь Евреев в Палестине ) is a 1913 silent documentary film directed by Noah Sokolovsky depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine . Its production was funded by thee Ha-Mizrakh Society of Odessa in the Russian Empire and occurred during a two-month visit of the Russian and Ukrainian filmmakers to Palestine. Meíron Ossip Grossman was the cinematographer . It debuted in 1913 at the 11th Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland .
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1913 Russian film Full hour-long documentary The Life of the Jews in Palestine ( , , Russian: Жизнь Евреев в Палестине ) is a 1913 silent documentary film directed by Noah Sokolovsky depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine . Its production was funded by the Mizrakh Company or the HaMizrah Society of Odessa in the Russian Empire and occurred during a two-month visit of the Russian and Ukrainian filmmakers to Palestine. Meíron Ossip Grossman was the cinematographer . It debuted in 1913 at the 11th Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland .
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a 1913 silent documentary film directed by noah sokolovsky depicting jews and jewish communities in ottoman pal
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a 1913 russian silent documentary film directed by noah sokolovsky depicting jews and jewish communities in ott
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