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Avodah (2008)

Lerski, Helmar

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Pages: 50 Min. , s/w

Year of publication: 2008

Keywords: Palästina ; Siedlung ; Kibbuz ; Chaluz ; Dokumentarfilm

Abstract: This landmark documentary celebrates the pioneering labors of early Jewish settlers in Palestine. With striking visual compositions and a remarkable soundtrack by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, the film records the technological and agricultural accomplishments of the pioneers and extols the idea of a socialist Jewish state. Footage includes shots taken at the Jaffa port, in Tel Aviv, and on various kibbutzim of the time; Strasbourg-born director Lerski's expressive style creates an almost mythic image of the Jew in Palestine, toiling and triumphing amidst the sweeping desert landscape.

Note: Orig.: Israel, 1935. - Engl. Untertitel

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Children must laugh (2006)

Ford, Aleksander

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 63 Min. , s/w

Year of publication: 2006

Keywords: Polen

Abstract: Directed by Lodz native Aleksander Ford and financed by the Jewish Labor movement in Poland, Children Must Laugh is one of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before WWII. This institutional film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium which, noted for its modern and spacious facilities, stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty. The sanitarium's theme song, "Mir Kumen On (Here We Come)," punctuates the film with a sense of hope and accomplishment. The Bund's optimistic internationalism, exemplified by the children's endearing performances, permeates the film, creating powerful yet unintended ironies for post-Holocaust audiences.

Note: Orig.: PL 1935. - Engl. Untertitel

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The inheritage (2009)

Mayer, Harold

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: English

Pages: 58 Min. , NTSC , s/w

Year of publication: 2009

Keywords: Einwanderung ; Dokumentarfilm ; USA

Abstract: This documentary, sponsored by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, chronicles the history of the garment workers from 1900 to 1964. Opening with the flood of immigrants that poured through Ellis Island in the early 1900s, the film goes on to unveil dim Lower East Side sweatshops, coal mines and textile mills filled with children, the battlefields of World War I, and the anxious years of the Depression. In this setting we see the immigrants struggle to become part of their new country and labor's brutal battle to organize into a united movement during the 1930s. Actual footage of the Memorial Day Massacre at Republic Steel brings the power of authenticity to these scenes. The film moves through World War II and the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, as each generation fights to preserve and expand its freedom.

Note: Orig.: USA, 1964

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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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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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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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A Vilna legend (2007)

Turkow, Zygmunt ; Roland, George

Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film

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Language: Yiddish

Pages: 60 Min. , s/w

Edition: Reissue of "Tkies Kaf/The Vow / directed by Zygmund Turkow", 1924

Year of publication: 2007

Abstract: Few reminders are left of the vibrant Yiddish theatrical world that flourished in Warsaw in the 1920s. This film is one of them. Jewish producers were preeminent in the interwar Polish film industry but, due to the pervasive antisemitism of the early '20s, they shied away from films dealing with Jewish themes. It was not until 1924 that amateurs, Henryk Bojm and Leo Forbert, adapted a Peretz Hirshbein play for the screen. Ambitiously mounted, professionally cast, it was one of the most successful Jewish cinematic efforts undertaken up to that time. In 1933, a group of New York Yiddish actors decided to give the original 1924 gem a new lease on life. They added a narration and several new scenes (those in the tavern) which gave dramatic justification to the narrative form. A precursor to the 1937 classic, The Dybbuk, A Vilna Legend features the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows. A yeshiva student and an orphan girl who are deeply in love face eternal separation even though their parents promised them to each other before birth. Only the prophet Elijah's miraculous intervention allows their parents to fulfill their vow and the couple their love.

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

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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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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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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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