Leeds, England’s new Jewish Heritage Centre for Children, a Chabad-Lubavitch run museum that aims to educate children of all ages and backgrounds about Judaism and Jewish practice, produced a new series of videos depicting life in a 19th-century Eastern European shtetl.

Using the museum’s own signature mockup of a pre-modern village as its set, the videos – which were produced in cooperation with the Heritage Lottery Fund – look at different aspects Jewish life, such as at the home of a religious scribe or at a candle store. Chaim and Ruth Bell wrote the scripts, basing their ideas on the input from Chabad of Leeds director Rabbi Yirmiyah Angyalfi; Simon Marcus of Addictive Media shot the film.

All of the films, including one featuring students from the Brodetsky Primary School in Leeds and entitled “Why I Like Being Jewish,” can be viewed through the Jewish.TV portal hosted by Chabad.org.

To view one of the videos, click here.