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  • AV-Medium  (5)
  • Oysher, Moishe  (5)
  • Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film  (3)
  • Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film  (2)
  • 1
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    〈〈The〉〉 cantor's son (2006)
    Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film
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    ISBN: 1585872148
    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (Regionalcode 0, NTSC, 90 Min.) , b/w, mono , 12 cm
    Edition: [Restored]
    Year of publication: 2006
    Series Statement: 〈〈The〉〉 Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish film library of the National Center for Jewish Film
    Note: Orig.: USA ©1937 , Sprache: jidd. - Untertit.: engl.
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  • 2
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    The Cantor's Son (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (93 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Dem Khazns Zundyl
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: This Yiddish feature film musical drama marks the screen debut of singer and cantor Moishe Oysher ("Overture to Glory" and "The Singing Blacksmith"). Shot in Pennsylvania near the Pocono Mountains, the film features Oysher in the title role of a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side (the film includes rare glimpses of the Lower East Side and of 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater marquees of the period). While washing floors in a nightclub several years later he is "discovered" and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, Oysher's character returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. In his book on Yiddish cinema "Bridge of Light", critic J. Hoberman calls "The Cantor's Son" an "anti-Jazz Singer," further remarking that the film's story parallels Oysher's own struggle to reconcile his cantorial calling with a career in show business. Like his film character, Oysher, born in Bessarabia the son and grandson of cantors, was both a matinee idol and a celebrated cantor. Oysher was married to his co-star Florence Weiss. After film director Sidney M. Goldin ("Uncle Moses", "East and West") suffered a fatal heart attack during the production of "The Cantor's Son", he was replaced by Stanislavsky-protege Ilya Motlyeff, who is credited as the film's director. The film's score (including the sentimental song "Mayn Shtetele Betz") was composed by Alexander Olshanetsky, a concert violinist and veteran of the 2nd Avenue Yiddish theater. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: jidd. mit engl. UT
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  • 3
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    Singing in the Dark (2010)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (86 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2010
    Uniform Title: Singing in the dark
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Moishe Oysher plays Leo, a German concentration camp survivor suffering from traumatic amnesia. In America, Leo works as a hotel clerk next door to Luli's Gypsy Paradise, a nightclub where he is befriended by comedian Joey Napoleon (borsht belter Joey Adams). One night the two get tipsy and Leo bursts into song. "Leo the Fabulous" becomes Luli's headliner - although he can only sing when intoxicated. Meanwhile Leo's visits to a psychiatrist brings forth fragmented memories of his cantor father (shown in flashback with Oysher playing his father singing Hebrew cantorial music). When gangsters looking for Napoleon knock Leo unconscious, his memory finally returns and Oysher is shown singing in the bombed-out ruins of Berlin's Levetzow Synagogue, poignant scenes shot on location in 1955. This important and little known film is one of the first American features to dramatize the Holocaust and only the second to depict a holocaust survivor (called "refugee" as the film predates the use of the term "survivor") as the main protagonist. The film represents an early attempt to integrate the Holocaust into mainstream popular culture using American movie conventions of the period. "Singing in the Dark" is a quirky mix of 1950s American film genres - the musical, gangster and mystery movie - and the period's fascination with psychiatry. While Jews are not discussed directly, Jewish content is explicit, especially in the popular Yiddish songs (sung in English) and liturgical Hebrew songs. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: engl.
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  • 4
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    The Singing Blacksmith : Based on a Play by David Pinski
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (107 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Yankl der Schmid
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer's musical version of David Pinski's play "Yankl der Shmid". Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmer's lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: jidd. mit engl. UT
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    〈〈The〉〉 singing blacksmith : = Yankl der Schmid (2005)
    Waltham, Mass. : National Center for Jewish Film
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    ISBN: 1585870536
    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (NTSC, Regionalcode 0, 105 Min.) , s/w , 12 cm
    Additional Material: 1 Bl.
    Edition: [Preserved, digitally restored and re-mastered by NCJF]
    Year of publication: 2005
    Series Statement: 〈〈The〉〉 Rutenberg Everett Yiddish film library of the National Center for Jewish Film
    Description / Table of Contents: Enth. außerdem Extras: Program notes by J. Hoberman. 'Singing in the dark' trailer. Ulmer biography
    Note: Orig.: US © 1938 , Sprache: jidd. - Untertitel: engl.
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