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Hungry hearts (2006)

Hopper, E. Mason ; Yezierska, Anzia

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 84 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: New York, NY ; Stummfilm ; Einwanderung ; USA ; Osteuropäische Juden

Abstract: Based on the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, the first writer to bring stories of American Jewish women to a mainstream audience, Hungry Hearts focuses on the members of the Levin family who emigrate from Eastern Europe to New York City's Lower East Side. Abraham, the pious father learned in religion but uninterested in business, has difficulty making a living and adjusting to life in America. The daughter Sara scrubs floors in the tenement in order to earn money and "become a somebody." The mother Hannah, a noble matriarch, scrimps and saves to paint her dingy kitchen white only to have her landlord raise the rent because of the improvements. Filmed on location on the Lower East Side, this bittersweet classic captures the hopes and hardships of Jewish immigrants in the New World.

Note: Orig.: USA, 1922. - Engl. Zwischentitel

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Der vandernder Yid (2006)

Roland, George

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 66 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Antisemitismus ; Judenverfolgung ; Nationalsozialismus ; Film ; Jiddisch ; Ewiger Jude

Abstract: The Wandering Jew tells the story of Arthur Levi (Jacob Ben-Ami), a German-Jewish artist who experiences the new German anti-Semitism when his masterpiece, a portrait of his Polish-born father entitled The Eternal Wanderer is rejected by the Berlin Academy of Art, which also asks his resignation as professor. Later in the film the figure in the painting comes to life and tells Levi the story of the persecution of the Jewish people. The film ends with footage of an anti-Hitler rally at New York City's Madison Square Garden and Levi's resolve to bear onward in the face of adversity. The Wandering Jew is a unique find: the first American feature film to depict the situation of Jews in Nazi Germany, and the only Yiddish-language film of its era to address this subject. The film, which dramatizes the situation of German Jews, was an American-Jewish response to the Nazi regime. It was produced by Jewish American Film Arts at the Atlas Studio on Long Island, NY during the summer of 1933, just months after the Nazi rise to power in Germany. In the wake of the violence of Kristallnacht the film was given a December 1938 re-release under the title Jews in Exile, screening in RKO theaters all over the New York area. The NCJF restoration features new subtitles and represents the most complete version of the film in existence. Darsteller: Jakob Ben-Ami: Prof. Arthur Levi Natalie Browning: Gertrude M.B. Samuylow: Spirit of Arthur's father Ben Adler: Paul von Eisenon Jakob Mestel: Levi family valet Abraham Teitelbaum: Arts reporter William Epstein: Messenger

Note: Orig.: USA, 1933. - Engl. Untertitel

URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024751/

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A cantor on trial (2007)

Goldin, Sidney M. ; Secunda, Sholom

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 10 Minuten , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2007

Keywords: Filmkomödie ; Kantor

Abstract: This short gem features Louis "Leibele" Waldman playing three different parts - first an old-world Eastern European, then a German, each auditioning to be the synagogue cantor. Displeased with what they've heard and unable to agree, the synagogue committee is visited by Leibele's agent who offers them a third alternative: a modern an American Chazan, with "pep and jazz," who can do Kol Nidre with a "two-step" and Netaneh Tokef with a "black bottom."

Note: Original: USA, 1931; englische Untertitel

URL: https://jewishfilm.org/Catalogue/films/cantor.html

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The wandering Jew : or the life of Theodor Herzl (1921)

Kreisler, Otto

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 1 DVD , Stumm , s/w

Year of publication: 1921

Keywords: Herzl, Theodor ; Stummfilm ; Biographischer Film ; Zionismus

Abstract: Rekonstruktion: The National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, Waltham/Massachusetts Darsteller: Ernst Bath, Rudolph Schildkraut, Joseph Schildkraut, Josef Schreiter, Rudolf Dietz, Else Osterheim, Gita Lenart-Vago, Axel Plessen, Pippa Gettke Geschichte des Schriftstellers, Juristen und Begründers des politischen Zionismus, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), mit Szenen aus der Geschichte der Juden (Kampf gegen die Philister, Spanische Inquisition, Pogrome in Rußland und Polen), die Herzls Sehnsucht nach einem eigenen Judenstaat begreiflich machen.

Note: Orig.: AT 1921. - Engl. Zwischentitel

URL: http://www.imdb.de/title/tt0956250/

URL: http://www.jfw.at/alte_jahre/1998/theodor_herzl.html

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Dream of my people (2008)

Bloome, A. J. ; Rosenblatt, Josef

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 66 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2008

Keywords: Palästina ; Siedlung

Abstract: An early travelogue on Palestine, focusing on Jews living and working in the Holy Land featuring the last appearance of Cantor Joseph (Yosselle) Rosenblatt. Locations featured here include Jerusalem sites (the market, Hebrew University, the King David Hotel, the Jewish Agency); the Judean Hills, Mikve Israel Agricultural School, pioneers working in fields; Rishon le Zion, Rehovot, Nes Ziona, citrus picking and packing; Jezreel valley and settlements; Tiberias and Lak Kinneret; Bedouin dwellings; Tel Aviv and Jaffa beach and street scenes and the Maccabiah Stadium.

Note: Orig.: USA, 1934

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Comrade Abram (2006)

Razumni, Alexander

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 18 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Propagandafilm

Abstract: This short propaganda film (or agitka) tells the tale of a Jew who survives a pogrom and becomes a leader in the Red Army. Intended to indoctrinate Soviet citizens by showing heroic examples of conversion to the Revolutionary cause, the agitka ('agitation pieces') were originally screened on Russian 'film trains.' A rare portrait of a Jewish character in early Russian cinema.

Note: Orig.: UdSSR, 1919. - Engl. Zwischentitel

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Dreamers and builders (2006)

Gross, Ya'akov

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 50 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Palästina ; Siedlung ; Zionismus

Abstract: Spectacular rare archival film footage of Palestine in the tumultuous 1920s forms the heart of this documentary by Israeli filmmaker and scholar Ya'akov Gross. Considered lost for more than 70 years, these early films taken by Ya'akov Ben Dov, the father of Hebrew cinema, depict settlements and activities in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Rishon le Zion and Old Jaffa; visits by Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill; the funeral of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; and early Zionists who pioneered the Third and Fourth Aliyahs. A vital and accessible look at a formative period in Israeli history. Dreamers and Builders includes material from three rare films by Ya'akov Ben Dov: Return to Zion (1920-21), The Rebirth of a Nation (1923), and Romance of Palestine (1926) - preserved in a joint project by the National Center for Jewish Film and the Israel Film Archive.

Note: Orig.: Israel, 1996

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His excellency (2007)

National Center for Jewish Film ; Roshal, Grigori

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Pages: 76 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2007

Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Stummfilm

Abstract: His Excellency was the first Soviet-Jewish film to be produced after a demand by the Central Committee's Department for Agitprop that fictional films be made "... in a way that an be appreciated by millions." In the tradition of brilliant Soviet directors Eisenstein and Pudovkin, His Excellency features stylized cinematography and stars Leonid Leonidov, a star of the Moscow Art Theater, and in a small part, Nikolai Cherkasov, who would later play the lead roles in Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible. With J. Untershlak and Tamara Edelheim as Hirsh and Rivele Lekert, and the Moscow Art Theater's Leonid Leonidov as both the Tsar's governor and the community's rabbi. According to Director Roshel the subject matter of this film was so delicate that the Soviet Commissar of Enlightenment oversaw production of this film personally. The film is based on the life of Hirsch Lekert, a shoemaker and militant Jewish Labor Bund member, who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. Although the film was intended "as a tract against individualism,... a greater emphasis is placed on class stuggle within the Jewish community." Bourgeois Jewish Zionists find themselves pitted against fellow Jewish proletariats and the government.

Note: Orig.: UdSSR, 1928. - Engl. Zwischentitel

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Farewell (2007)

Yakhnis, Arkadiy

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Pages: 27 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2007

Keywords: Russland ; Israel ; Auswanderung

Abstract: This short documentary chronicles a 90 year old man's emigration to Israel from his native shtetl in Bessabaria. Yakhnis' beautifully photographed film poetically captures the end of a rich Jewish heritage in Russia.

Note: Orig.: RU, 1992

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East and west (2006)

Goldin, Sidney M. ; Abramson, Ivan

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Pages: 85 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Filmkomödie

Abstract: This delightful comedy opens as Morris Brown, a New Yorker better acquainted with his checkbook than his prayerbook, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. The bride, daughter of his traditionally observant brother, and Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, could not be more different. But Mollie unexpectedly meets her match, an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. East and West features classic scenes of Molly Picon lifting weights and boxing, teaching young villagers to shimmy and stealing away from services to gorge herself before sundown on Yom Kippur. Underlying these hijinks is veteran filmmaker Goldin's affectionate appreciation of differences, for good-natured comedy shapes his portrayal of worldly Jews encountering traditional shtetl life.

Note: Orig.: AT, 1923. - Engl. und jidd. Zwischentitel , Ex. b: Nur für den internen Gebrauch

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