12015-10-15T21:34:53-07:00Adam Hochstetterc48f6bcc8795510c546206d51bf07a1dcfaa911f60681Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1933 screening of the film Anybody Can Love(Każdemu wolno kochać) at the garden movie theater Rakieta in Łódź. Anybody Can Love, the first full feature Polish talkie, is about a poor song writer who suddenly becomes successful. The hit songs for this film were written by Jewish artists— music by Zygmunt Karasiński and lyrics by Szymon Kataszek.plain2015-10-15T21:34:53-07:00www.iub.edu/~lodzdsc/omeka-2.3.12015-06-02T11:11:52+00:001933T011 Anybody Can Love in Lodz.jpgcinemasongsAdam Hochstetterc48f6bcc8795510c546206d51bf07a1dcfaa911f
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12015-10-21T21:45:51-07:0019th-century migrations19plain2016-12-04T12:24:37-08:00Until 1793, while Łódź was an episcopal town, Jews were mostly barred from settling there. The legal situation changed after it became a Prussian town, and Jewish merchants started to migrate to Łódź, mainly from the surrounding towns and villages. Spinners and weavers from the German lands came to Łódź during the 1820s and 30s (at which point the city was already under Russian control). Jews engaged in textile production—establishing crude domestic workshops and textile factories—started to arrive in large numbers only in the 1860s, predominantly from the other towns in central Poland.
At the start of the 19th century Jews in town and villages held traditional jobs as consignment traders, laborers, stallkeepers, and merchants, or provided services to the Jewish community, for example as religious as teachers (melamed) or keepers of the ritual bath (mikvenik). As they moved to Łódź, many of them acquired skills that were better suited to the economic opportunities offered by this city. Many of them became weavers; some opened small textile businesses. The the textile industry also created the need for the services of professionals such as wool and cotton merchants, or wagoners who would provide local transport.