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  • 2005-2009  (17)
  • 1925 - 1929
  • Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film  (17)
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    The return of Nathan Becker (2009)
    Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 72 Min. , s/w
    Year of publication: 2009
    Keywords: Sowjetunion ; Arbeiter
    Abstract: This rare, newly restored feature was originally advertised as "the first Yiddish talkie from Soviet Russia." The plot centers on Nathan Becker, a Jewish bricklayer who returns to Russia after twenty-eight years in America. After reuniting with his father (played with comic eccentricity by Solomon Mikhoels) Nathan leaves the shtetl to work in the new industrial center of Magnitogorsk. There, he soon finds that the work habits he acquired in America conflict with the Soviet system. While the film's resolution emphasizes the triumph of socialist productivity, the screenplay by Yiddish author Peretz Markish reflects the warmth and humor of the Jewish spirit.
    Note: Orig.: USSR 1932. - Engl. Untertitel
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  • 2
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    Avodah (2008)
    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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  • 3
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    Dream of my people (2008)
    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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  • 4
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    Dreamers and builders (2006)
    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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  • 5
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    A Vilna legend (2007)
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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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  • 6
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    Hungry hearts (2006)
    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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  • 7
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    An appeal to the Jews of the world (2007)
    Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film
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    ISBN: 158587227x
    Language: Russian
    Pages: 6 Min. , s/w
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Michoėls, Solomon M. ; Markiš, Perec D. ; Ejzenstejn, Sergej M. ; Sowjetunion ; Antifaschismus
    Abstract: In 1941, a group of the Soviet Union's most prominent Jewish writers and artists signed an appeal to Jews throughout the world, asking them to join the Soviet people "in the holy war against Fascism ... to destroy the enemy of humanity and of the Jewish people." The group included actor Solomon Mikhoels, poet Peretz Markish and film director Sergei Eisenstein. This newsreel footage captures their eloquent, impassioned appeals. Tragically, Mikhoels and Markish later fell victim to the Stalinist purges in the 1940s and '50s (Eisenstein died of natural causes in the 1940s.) This film stands as an important record of how the Soviet government relaxed its ethnic policies in order to appeal to anyone who could help fight fascism and the Nazis.
    Note: Orig.: UdSSR, 1941. - Engl. Untertitel
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  • 8
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    Seekers of hapiness (2007)
    Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Russian
    Pages: 84 Min. , NTSC
    Year of publication: 2007
    Keywords: Film ; Birobidschan
    Abstract: During the late 1920s, many impoverished Jews searching for a better life made their way to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family's immigration to Birobidzhan and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area. While the family encounters hardships in adjusting to this new way of life (including son-in-law Pinya's greedy, misguided search for gold) their search for assimilation is ultimately shown as positive. While the film is essentially a Soviet propaganda piece emphasizing the utopian dream of Birobidzhan as a socialist Jewish homeland, the reality of the area was harsh and inhospitable.
    Note: Orig.: UdSSR 1934. - Engl. Untertitel
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  • 9
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    A cantor on trial (2007)
    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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  • 10
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    Comrade Abram (2006)
    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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