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  • Yiddish  (11)
  • Contner, J. Burgi  (6)
  • Kazimierczak, V.  (5)
  • Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film  (11)
  • Ṿarshe : Farlag "Ḳulṭur-lige"
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  • Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film  (11)
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  • 1
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    The Living Orphan : Based on a Play by Sholom Secunda (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (93 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Der lebediker Yusem
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    Abstract: "The Living Orphan" is a dramatic tale of hardship that highlights some of the traumatic problems of the immigrant experience, including alcoholism, separation and poverty. The child star, Jerry Rosenberg (Ross) gives a memorable performance as the son Benny and the film introduces two European stars Fanina Rubina and Gustav Berger. The plot centers on the story of a stage couple that develops marital problems due to the demands of the theatre. The husband, whose career is failing, insists that the wife stay home to tend their young son. The subplot focuses on the plight of a woman who chooses her career over family obligations. Set in New York in the 1930's, the film contains some interesting street shots of the Lower East Side and a marvelous scene in the Bialystoker Old Folks Home. One of the best Second Avenue Yiddish theatre domestic melodramas produced in New York City just prior to World War II, the film provides a wonderful example of the sentimental dramas created to entertain and educate the immigrant community. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 2
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    The Wandering Jew (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (55 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Der vanderner Yid
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: "The Wandering Jew" tells the story of Arthur Levi (Jacob Ben-Ami), a German-Jewish artist who experiences the new German antisemitism 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. [www.nywift.org]
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  • 3
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    Mirele Efros : Based on a Play by Jacob Gordin (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (79 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Mirele Efros
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: "Mirele Efros", the Jewish Queen Lear, was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son, gravely mistaking the young woman's character as giving and devout. The resulting conflict between the noble Jewish matriarch and her ungrateful, self-serving daughter-in-law provides both a cautionary tale and a lesson in the value of filial piety. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 4
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    Jewish Life in Bialystok (2006)
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (12 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Jewish life in Bialystok
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    Abstract: Vivid cinematography and music evoke the industrial and cultural center that was Bialystok in 1939. Images of smokestacks, power looms and textile workers; downtown shops and buses, market day with peasants and horses; schools, synagogues, the Sholem Aleichem Library, the TOZ sanatorium and a community-run summer camp reflect the diversity of the city's 200-year-old Jewish community. In addition to the tile-roofed home of Dr. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto, "Jewish Life in Bialystok" features memorable images of a spacious park where young adults relax and children play. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 5
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    Jewish Life in Vilna (2005)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (11 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2005
    Uniform Title: Jewish life in Vilna
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: This rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work, at play, in the synagogue, and in school. Vilna's famous landmarks - the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute - are among the film's highlights. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 6
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    Jewish Life in Cracow (2005)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (12 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2005
    Uniform Title: Jewish life in Cracow
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Focusing on Cracow's Jewish quarter, this film intermingles old and new, using music to enhance the images. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages; people conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls; parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated discussions. Scenes of the famous Remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, the Jewish Community Council and several schools convey the vitality of this age-old Jewish community. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 7
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    A Day in Warsaw (2005)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (11 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2005
    Uniform Title: A day in Warsaw
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: The lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial "beehive" Nalewki Street, were home to 400,000 Jews before World War II. "A Day in Warsaw" sets Warsaw's modern multi-storied buildings and broad streets against its old market square and Jewish quarter. Trucks, trolleys, autos and buses meet horse-drawn carriages, pushcarts and porters in the bustling commercial district. Also shown are the Yiddish Theater, Gensza Cemetery and other Jewish institutions - the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogues. At film's end, after Sabbath services, families pour into Krashinsky Park where children play and adults spiritedly debate the issues of the day. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 8
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    Jewish Life in Lwow (2005)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (12 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2005
    Uniform Title: Jewish life in Lwow
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    Abstract: Stylish women promenade through modern Lwow’s thriving market squares to a piano-and-violin accompaniment suggesting urban rhythms. Also known as Lemberg and home to an old, well-established Jewish community, this city nestled in a valley projects an aura of prosperity. Parks and pavilions punctuate its public spaces as trucks, pushcarts and bicycles ply its busy streets. Among the Jewish community landmarks shown are the Yad Haruzim Trade Union Building, the Old Ghetto, the softly curving exterior of the Modern Temple, the orthodox school, the Moorish-looking Lazarus Hospital and the grave of the "Golden Rose" - filmed in warm, dappled light - and the Nowosci Theater. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 9
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    Green Fields : Based on a Play by Peretz Hirshbein
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (99 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Grine felder
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    Abstract: In Edgar G. Ulmer's soulful open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein's classic play, an ascetic young scholar ventures into the Lithuanian countryside, searching for "true Jews". One of the most critically acclaimed and beloved of American Yiddish talkies, "Green Fields" celebrates an idyllic world of tribal wholeness and innate piety. Rarely has a film represented the shtetl with such lyricism. [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 10
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    The Light Ahead : Based on a Novel by S.Y. Abramotvitch
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (95 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: Fishke der Krumer
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    Abstract: David Opatoshu ("Exodus", "Torn Curtain") made his film debut as Fishke, a lame young man hopelessly in love with a blind orphan girl (Helen Beverley) in cholera-obsessed Glubsk (e.g. Foolstown). The impoverished couple dream of life in the big city of Odessa free from the shtetl's poverty and stifling old-world prejudices. The benevolent and enlightened bookseller Mendele (Isidore Cashier as Mendele Mokher Sforim) helps them, turning small-town superstitions to their advantage. This 1939 Yiddish film classic, made on the eve of World War II, is at once romantic, expressionist, and painfully conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. Audaciously adapted from the work of novelist S.Y. Abramovitch (1836-1917), whom Sholem Aleichem dubbed the grandfather of Yiddish literature, this luminous allegory of escape marries Edgar Ulmer's masterful direction (and set design) with superb acting by members of New York's Artef and Yiddish Art Theaters. Film historian J. Hoberman calls Beverley and Opatoshu "perhaps the most beautiful couple in the history of Yiddish cinema ... their scenes have a touching erotic chemistry". [jewishfilm.org]
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  • 11
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    American Matchmaker
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (87 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Uniform Title: American Shadkhn
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    Abstract: Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as "the Yiddish Fred Astaire", plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. Edgar G. Ulmer's last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. With its urbane, neurotic hero, "American Matchmaker" looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen. [jewishfilm.org]
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    Note: I Want to be a Boarder [Ich vil zeyn a Boarder] (1937) , jidd. mit engl. UT
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