Metadata
WORK ID: NEFA 14615 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| VISIT TO ISRAEL MAY AND JUNE 1958 | 1958 | 1958-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White / Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 21 mins 18 secs Credits: Individuals: Ruth Jacobson Genre: Home Movie Subject: Travel Religion Education |
| Summary A home movie made by Ruth Jacobson of a trip to Jerusalem in Israel in May and June 1958 taken with her husband Lionel. The couple travel to Paris before board the cruise ship S.S. Theodor Herzl for the journey to Israel. While in Jerusalem they visit the Rose Wollstein Nursing and Infant School and the Weizmann Institute of Science. They also talk with Israeli soldiers. |
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Description
A home movie made by Ruth Jacobson of a trip to Jerusalem in Israel in May and June 1958 taken with her husband Lionel. The couple travel to Paris before board the cruise ship S.S. Theodor Herzl for the journey to Israel. While in Jerusalem they visit the Rose Wollstein Nursing and Infant School and the Weizmann Institute of Science. They also talk with Israeli soldiers.
The film opens In Paris with views of various street scenes including a Cartier shop window display and the Paris Opera...
A home movie made by Ruth Jacobson of a trip to Jerusalem in Israel in May and June 1958 taken with her husband Lionel. The couple travel to Paris before board the cruise ship S.S. Theodor Herzl for the journey to Israel. While in Jerusalem they visit the Rose Wollstein Nursing and Infant School and the Weizmann Institute of Science. They also talk with Israeli soldiers.
The film opens In Paris with views of various street scenes including a Cartier shop window display and the Paris Opera House.
The film cuts to onboard the S.S. Theodor Herzl and views of passengers relaxing on deck. A man is plays an accordion and people dance to the music. A still showing a map of Israel is followed by a view of a coastline and town seen from the ship.
A small launch pulls up beside the ship with a banner hung from it that reads “Time Travel Tours Welcome”. A view of the cruise ship moored at a dockside is followed by a view of an airport building with an El-Al aeroplane on the runway. A crowd waves to passengers getting off the plane and a man is selling ice cream from a bicycle.
General views of the Jerusalem Wall and the Dome of the Rock. A man and woman stand next to the border crossing building at Mandelbaum Gate. There is a large sign, which reads “Welcome to Israel”. A man is photographed next to a large black Menorah candlestick that is standing against a wall. There are views of an Arab family followed by an ornate church doorway. The film cuts to show a distant hill with a small hilltop village. A group of children pose for the camera.
The film cuts to views of the Rose Wollstein Nursing & Infant School, a modern complex. Some of buildings are still under construction.
[B&W] A sign on a wall reads “Babies House”. The film cuts to an interior hospital corridor, followed by a view of a room full of cradles, with babies in cribs looking at the camera. A nurse holds a baby. Two women stand outside next to a sign that reads “Rose Wollstein Nursing & Infant School”.
[Colour] General views of a cemetery with a water feature and a young woman working in a nursery. In the distance an oil pump. The film cuts to show a man standing next to an oil-drilling platform.
The film changes to show a woman talking with two Israeli soldiers. Two more soldiers walk by showing a flagpole from which the Israeli flag is flying. The man seen previously is now standing next to two soldiers holding a machine gun. He then gives some cigarettes to the soldiers and shakes their hands.
The film cuts to show views of the Weizmann Institute of Science and what appears to be a gravestone in a garden. Two women lead a group of toddlers towards a building. The film changes to show three boys stroking a pony. There is an overhead view of a complex of modern buildings. The film cuts to a man herding goats. This is followed by views of people swimming in a lake and a pleasure boat moored at a dockside. An Arabic man on horse is lead down a road by group of people dancing. The film ends on a high angle view of a coastal town.
Context
Born Birmingham, January 19, 1919. Died Newcastle, February 8, 2009, aged 90
Regarded as the grande dame of Newcastle Jewry, Ruth Jacobson moved to Newcastle as a bride of 18 and became a leading light in the city and the region, writes Faga Speker.
The youngest of four children of Rev Dr Abraham Cohen, chief minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation from 1913-49, she received early training in charity work from her mother, Bessie. Armed with a receipt book and her natural charm, she...
Born Birmingham, January 19, 1919. Died Newcastle, February 8, 2009, aged 90
Regarded as the grande dame of Newcastle Jewry, Ruth Jacobson moved to Newcastle as a bride of 18 and became a leading light in the city and the region, writes Faga Speker. The youngest of four children of Rev Dr Abraham Cohen, chief minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation from 1913-49, she received early training in charity work from her mother, Bessie. Armed with a receipt book and her natural charm, she was sent to collect annual subscriptions for the Poor Children’s Boot and Shoe Fund. Marrying in Newcastle in 1937, she was a mother at 19. Another two babies soon followed. Her husband, Lionel Jacobson, had gained a degree at Oxford and trained for the bar. But he went into his father’s business, Jackson the Tailor, founded in the early 1900s, and ran it with his brother before its 1953 merger with Burtons, of which he became chairman. Despite her young family, Ruth volunteered for war work and helped with the Women’s Voluntary Service until after the war. She also started her lifelong involvement in the local Daughters of Zion and joined Wizo, soon becoming branch chairman. Keen on local and especially smaller charities, she and her husband set up a trust fund. But their main endowment was the Ruth and Lionel Jacobson chair of clinical pharmacology at Newcastle University Medical School, twinned with the school of medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For over 40 years, each medical department of the university has invited a speaker from abroad to deliver the annual Jacobson Lecture. After Lionel’s death in 1978, their youngest child, Malcolm, joined Ruth as trustee. In the 1973 community amalgamation, the Jacobsons bought the site for today’s United Hebrew Congregation of Newcastle upon Tyne. The Lionel Jacobson House, the original house on the site, provides constantly used function and drop-in rooms, synagogue offices and a small shul for the daily minyan, as well as the kosher food facility. Keen collectors of contemporary art, the couple made generous loans to Newcastle and Durham Universities. Ruth was a life-member and fundraiser of the Friends of the Laing Art Gallery. A co-founder in 1948 of the highly successful amateur dramatic society, The Jewish Players, she appeared in many of its productions and led the company to its triumphant securing of two cups at the local drama festival. Involved with youth, she was chairman of the fundraising committee of the Northumberland Association of Youth Clubs, a governor of Rutherford Comprehensive School, and a member of the development trust committee of Newcastle Church High School. As founder-chairman of the League of Jewish Women in Newcastle, which she was asked to start in the mid-1970s, she became involved with the North East School for the Blind, where she used her thespian skills by acting out each character in the stories she read to the schoolchildren. Maintaining her interest in Wizo, she sat on its national executive committee and was a vice-president of Wizo UK until retiring in 2005 after receiving a Woman of Valour award. She was also active in the Newcastle Ladies’ Cancer Committee and was the first female board director of the Metro radio station, retiring in 1989 aged 70. In 1980 she was invited to join a group visit to schools and hospitals in China, organised by a London communal figure, the late Ruth Winston-Fox, with the aim of gaining emancipation for Chinese women. Asked by the deputy lord mayor of Newcastle, Labour councillor Bennie Abrahams, to serve as his deputy lady mayoress, she continued as his lady mayoress in 1981, as Mrs Marion Abrahams was too ill for public duties. Politically unaffiliated, she became a huge asset, especially with the lord mayor’s failing eyesight. She was appointed MBE in 1989 for her contribution to charitable services in north east England. But she retired from her positions as her oldest daughter, Valerie’s, health deteriorated with multiple sclerosis. Both Valerie and Valerie’s son, Nigel, predeceased her. She is survived by her second daughter, Pamela; son, Malcom; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Obituary: Ruth Jacobson: The Jewish Chronicle online, 26 March 2009 http://www.thejc.com/social/obituaries/obituary-ruth-jacobson |
