The interest of National Socialists to preserve film material of their victims beyond expulsion and elimination is an aspect which is only being looked at from a site perspective of historical science, even though a number of films and photos as well as indications and traces of their production, accumulation and archiving are existing.
In the following article the form and intention of concerted made graphical material will be traced on the basis of the documentary film material “Asien in Mitteleuropa” which was recorded in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942.

The ethnographic article focuses on the current “renaissance” of Hasidism in the US. As an exemplary site of study serves the Chicago Congregation Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe. There, the article draws attention to the specific role of the recent Russian Jewish Migration for the Hasidic revival. As “returnees” to religion Russian Jews deceisively reshape traditional Hasidic social hierarchies and thus contribute to a modernization of current Hasidism in the US

Settlements played an important role worldwide to resolve social problems and problems of assimilation of immigrants in a new surrounding. Up until now it has been forgotten to recognize the history of the Jewish People Homes and Toynbee Halls as examples of Jewish settlements in Europe. Jewish People Homes and Toynbee Halls were mostly self organized social projects facilitating cultural contact between assimilated Jews and Jewish immigrants coming from Eastern Europe. Jewish men and women sought to realize models of emancipation and to renew the Jewish identity.
Focused on these assumptions, the article will ask why the settlement movement was welcomed in Jewish circles and which were the transnational and gender-related similarities between some settlements. Secondly the article will ask in a micro-historical study of the Jewish People Home in Berlin, as an example of a Jewish settlement, for the way it operated, the various activities it pursued and its actors.