Archive for August, 2009

Budapest Jewish Summer Festival 2009: Aug 30 – Sept 06

Budapest Jewish Summer Festival is already a tradition in Budapest Hungary: the festival features several great musicians, performances – this is one of the best Jewish cultural programs you can pick in Budapest. In 2009 it is the 12th Jewish Summer Festival taking place between Aug 30 and Sept 06, so if you should be [...]

Retro Budapest Walks – a FitzPatrick Traveltalk from 1938 in Technicolor

I was totally blown away by this very special technicolor film about Budapest before WW2 and well before the big traffic jams we sadly know so well regarding bigger cities.
The American born documentary film director, James A. FitzPatrick made a very nice series of his travels entitled FitzPatrick’s Traveltalk (commisioned by MGM). One of the [...]