Berichten door Erga Netz

This week I’ll tell you about The Bund, Utopia for Real, the TV documentary we produced in 1997, exactly 100 years after the Bund was created. A secret Jewish workers’ movement, the Bund or also written as BUND (Yiddish: בונד‎, cognate to German: Bund, ‘union’) was established in November 1897 in a small shack in the Russian town of Vilna. From thirteen men it had grown within a few years into an open and proud worldwide organization with hundreds … [Lees verder]

It was thanks to this documentary that I got to know aspects of the life of Hans Snoek, the founder of the Scapino Ballet, of which she never boasted. This documentary was indeed, a great vehicle to promote the values for which she stood. Sadly, Hans (formal: Johanna) died a year later, remarkably on Yom Kippur’s eve, which – some people believe – is another sign of her righteousness. She was, indeed, a Tzadeket Gdola, … [Lees verder]