Chazkele

English, 45 min.

In the summer of 1900, a child was surprisingly born to a large, bitterly poor family in the Shtetl of Staszów. Chazkel (Jechezkel) David Kirszenbaum,son of Rabbi Natan Meir and his wife Rachel Alta.
Ever since his earliest childhood, Chazkele had eyes for the people around him, the water carriers and porters, the tailors, the praying, the poorest of the poor, the disabled and meshiggene, the Christian neighbors and for their peculiarities, viciousness, their suffering and religious fervor.
Based on the childhood memories of the painter, cartoonist and sculpter Jecheskel David Kirszenbaum (1900 - 1954).

Speakers: Joel Landshut, Yael Goldman