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    Overture to Glory : Based on a Play by Mark Arnshtein (2020)
    Paris : Lobster Films
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (79 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Trésors du cinéma Yiddish II
    Uniform Title: Der Vilner balebesl
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Based on the true story that inspired "The Jazz Singer" and starring the legendary, real-life cantor Moishe Oysher in his most iconic role, "Overture to Glory" is a milestone of Yiddish filmmaking celebrating its 80th anniversary in this brand new restoration. In strictly segregated Poland, a young cantor succumbs to the allure of gentile culture and joins the Warsaw Opera, while pining for the world he left behind. He meets fame and fortune but at great personal cost, as he struggles to balance the appeal of his newfound fame and notoriety with feelings of guilt and responsibility toward his family and community. Filmed in the thick of World War II, the film's extensive cantorial segments read like an elegy for a disappearing world. Featuring perhaps the most convincing scenes of synagogue life in any fiction film, "Overture to Glory" begins during the morning service on Rosh Hashanah and ends at Kol Nidre, making the story a kind of redemptive journey during the Days of Awe. [miamijewishfilmfestival.org]
    Note: jidd. mit engl. UT / UT: engl. ; franz.
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    Menashe (2019)
    Köln : mindjazz pictures
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (82 Min.) , farbig
    Year of publication: 2019
    Uniform Title: Menashe
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Ein orthodoxer, in seinem Alltag gleichwohl höchst individualistisch handelnder Jude in New York kämpft nach dem Tod seiner Frau darum, seinen Sohn allein erziehen zu dürfen, wogegen sich der Rabbi als Oberhaupt seiner jüdischen Gemeinde in Brooklyn sperrt. Während er die Trauerfeier für seine Frau organisiert, sich durch seinen Supermarktjob quält und eher glücklos sein Dasein als Hausmann verrichtet, bleibt ihm eine Woche Zeit bis zur Entscheidung. Ein überwiegend in jiddischer Sprache mit Laiendarstellern gedrehtes Spielfilmdebüt, das einen spannenden Einblick in die Welt der orthodoxen chassidischen Juden von Borough Park, Brooklyn N.Y., bietet. Die sanft-bescheidene Großstadtgeschichte macht vieles allzu Menschliche sichtbar. - Sehenswert ab 16. [Film-Dienst]
    Note: jidd. / UT: dt.
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  • 3
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    A Cantor on Trial (2017)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (11 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2017
    Uniform Title: A cantor on trial
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    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" (a popular 1920s dance). [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: jidd. mit engl. UT
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    Dybuk : Based on a Play by Shalom Ansky (2016)
    Paris : Lobster Films
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 2 DVD-Videos (118 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2016
    Series Statement: Trésors du cinéma Yiddish
    Uniform Title: Der Dibuk
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    Abstract: "The Dybbuk" is a Yiddish film classic based on the celebrated play of the same name by S. Ansky, written during the turbulent years of 1912-1917. The idea for the play came to Ansky as he led a Jewish folklore expedition through small towns of Eastern Europe, which was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. The Dybbuk reflects Ansky's deep perception of the shtetl's religious and cultural mores, as well as his insightful appreciation of its hidden spiritual resources. Plans to produce the play in Russian by Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater in 1920 were aborted by the Bolshevik Revolution. Ansky, who died in 1920 never lived to see his play produced. The play however, was destined to become one of the most widely-produced in the history of Jewish theater. Its rich ethnographic tapestry, mystical themes, star-crossed lovers and haunting melodies were designed to bridge the historical abyss. Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession. The film was made on location in Poland in 1937 and brought together the best talents of Polish Jewry, script writers, composers, choreographers, set designers, actors and historical advisors. The film's exquisite musical and dance interludes evoke the cultural richness of both shtetl communities and Polish Jewry on the eve of World War II. [www.jewishfilm.org]
    Note: jidd. / UT: engl. ; franz.
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    Tevya the Milkman : Based on a Play by Sholem Aleichem (2016)
    Paris : Lobster Films
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (89 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2016
    Series Statement: Trésors du cinéma Yiddish
    Uniform Title: Tevye
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    Abstract: Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave, Tevye the Dairyman's daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. Her courtship and marriage pit Tevye's love for his daughter against his deep-seated faith and loyalty to tradition. The clash between tradition and modernity, parental authority and love, customs and enlightenment are foreshadowed by the antisemitism of the rural community. Tevye's world is a microcosm of the larger world of Russian Jewry in the early 1900s. [www.jewishfilm.org]
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    Note: Our Future [Unzer Zukunft] (1946) , jidd. / UT: engl. ; franz.
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    Kol Nidre (2013)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (88 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2013
    Uniform Title: Kol Nidre
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: A bissel of this, a bissel of that, "Kol Nidre" has a little bit of everything, combining family melodrama and romance with popular songs, cantorial music and comic bits in an inventive pastiche of themes and styles. The film stars Lili Liliana & Leon Liebgold, the husband and wife Polish actors from "The Dybbuk", comedienne Yetta Zwerling, "Motl the Operator" star Chaim Tauber, and entertainer Cantor Leibele Waldman, with music by Sholem Secunda. Long lost, "Kol Nidre" has been restored with new English subtitles, using the sole surviving 35mm nitrate print. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: jidd. mit engl. UT
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    Mamele : Based on a Play by Meyer Schwartz (2013)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (97 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2013
    Uniform Title: Mamele
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    Abstract: "Mamele" belongs to Molly Picon, "Queen of the Yiddish Musical", who shines as Mamele (little mother), the dutiful daughter keeping her family intact after the death of their mother. She's so busy cooking, cleaning, and matchmaking for her brothers and sisters that she has little time for herself, until she discovers the violinist across the courtyard! Following their success with "Yiddle with his Fiddle", Director Joseph Green and leading lady Molly Picon re-teamed for "Mamele", which like Yiddle was shot in Poland. Set in Lodz, this musical comedy drama featuring Picon's trademark song "Abi Gezunt", embraces the diverse gamut of interwar Jewish life in Poland, with its nogoodniks and unemployed, nightclubs and gangsters, and religious Jews celebrating Succoth. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: jidd. mit engl. UT
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    Bar Mitzvah (2009)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (74 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2009
    Uniform Title: Bar Mitzvah
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Believing his wife lost at sea, Israel remarries a scheming gold-digger. Shock, tears and laughs abound when his beloved wife returns on the eve of her son's bar mitzvah after a ten-year absence. Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater ... An American-made feature film about Jewish Poland (and the "Old Country" more generally), Bar Mitzvah shows how American and Polish Jews caricaturized each other during this period as it represents the pinnacle of low budget movie making. Aside from its unequivocal documentary and historical value, it is a great piece of kitsch. More accurately it is a masterwork of shund - popular Yiddish lowbrow theatrical fare that was the bread and butter of Yiddish theatrical productions. As critic J. Hoberman writes, after lamenting the film's less then stellar production values, "And yet, one must be grateful that "Bar Mitzvah" was made, for, more than any other performer, its star was the popular Yiddish theater incarnate." [jewishfilm.org]
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    Our Children : Based on a Play by Sholom Aleichem (2008)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (71 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2008
    Uniform Title: Unzere Kinder
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: This semi-documentary film (and Poland's last Yiddish feature) features the comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher who had recently returned from the Soviet Union, and Jewish children who had survived the Holocaust. Directed on location by Nathan Gross and Shaul Goskind at at the JDC-supported Helenowek Colony, an orphanage and school near Lodz, this film includes Dzigan and Shumacher's virtuoso turn as all the characters in Sholem Aleichem's Kasrilevke Brent (Kasrilevke is Burning), and an exchange of roles where they become the children's audience. Reversals continue during the performers' visit to the children's residence, as the children teach adults about the healing possibilities of music, dance and storytelling. [jewishfilm.org]
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    Love and Sacrifice : Based on a Novel by Isidore Zolotarefsky (2008)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (73 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2008
    Uniform Title: Libe und laydnshaft
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    Abstract: Based on the novel "Love and Passion" by Isidore Zolotarefsky "Love and Sacrifice" is a prime example of "shund", the melodramatic theatrical escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. It opened at the Clinton Theater April 7, 1936 and was held over three weeks as the most popular Yiddish movie the Clinton had shown to date. Produced by Joseph Seiden over two days in a loft in New York City on a miniscule budget, this tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her was a tremendous success. The story of a long-suffering mother who goes to prison for shooting a would-be suitor employs many archetypes of Yiddish theater. From the conflict between the sacrificing mother and the homewrecking schemer, to the reunion of parent and child at a celebratory wedding the film provides a classic example of the Yiddish-American cinema. [jewishfilm.org]
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    The Jester (2008)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (90 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2008
    Uniform Title: Der Purimshpiler
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    Abstract: "The Jester" was co-directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylsk in 1937, following the great success of their film "Yiddle with His Fiddle" the previous year. Green who had emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1924, returned to Poland with the American Yiddish theater stars (and then married couple) Miriam Kressyn and Hymie Jacobson for the procuction. Shot on location on a farm outside of Warsaw and in the predominantly-Jewish town of Kazimierz, near Lublin, the film also stars Zygmunt Turkow, co-founder with Ida Kaminska of the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater. The film premiered in Warsaw in September 1937 and opened in New York City three months later. This musical drama stars a lonely wanderer, a circus performer and Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, whose family tries to marry her into a prominent family. One of the film's centerpieces is a Purim shpil (Purim play) with its parade of costumes and music. The Jester's lively circus and vaudeville music and set pieces provide a glimpse of Warsaw's then-thriving Yiddish revues and cabarets, which were destroyed soon after. Many of the film's Polish-Jewish crew and actors were killed during the Holocaust, giving the film's touches of melancholy an even more profound reading for today's audiences. Another important historical note: In 1941, the Nazis appropriated a segment from The Jester's Purim play scene for use in their notorious antisemitic propaganda film "Der ewige Jude" (The Eternal Jew). [jewishfilm.org]
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    We Live Again (2007)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (48 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2007
    Uniform Title: Nous continuons!
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    Abstract: Among the first movies to deal with the subject of the Holocaust, this documentary about Jewish war orphans opened in New York in September 1948 and has rarely been seen since. According to film critic Jim Hoberman, the film was modeled on "Children Must Laugh", a pre-war Yiddish-language picture about Jewish orphans. "We Live Again" incorporates newsreels, actual footage of children receiving aid from relief agencies, and a few staged sequences. An introductory credit reads: "This film is about the children in the Homes and Camps of France, operated under the auspices of the Jewish Union for Resistance and Mutual Aid. It was produced in the summer and fall of 1946, two years after the Liberation and is dedicated to the memory of those who died so that their children might live and laugh in peace." The film is an important companion piece to both "Our Children" and "Long is the Road", two post-war films about displaced persons restored by NCJF with support from the National Endowment for the Arts. [jewishfilm.org]
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    A Letter to Mother (2007)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (112 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2007
    Uniform Title: A brivele der mamen
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    Abstract: Die melodramatische Geschichte einer jiddischen Familie in der Ukraine, von der Jahrhundertwende bis nach Beendigung des Ersten Weltkrieges. Im Mittelpunkt die Mutter, die bemüht ist, die Familie durchzubringen, jedoch langsam deren Zerfall miterleben muß: Ihr Mann verläßt das Dorf heimlich, um in Amerika zu Reichtum und Ehre zu kommen; die Tochter erlebt die unglückliche Beziehung zu einem Tanzlehrer; der Krieg beraubt sie des ältesten Sohnes. Schließlich fährt sie ebenfalls nach Amerika, um das jüngste Kind wiederzufinden, das der Vater einst nachkommen ließ, und entdeckt, daß er inzwischen zu einem berühmten Sänger aufgestiegen ist. Der interessante polnische Vorkriegsfilm mischt publikumswirksam ein anrührendes Hohelied der "jiddischen Mame" mit realistischen Einblicken in eine unterdrückte Kultur. Nicht nur als historisches Dokument von Interesse. - Ab 14. [Film-Dienst]
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    A Vilna Legend : Based on a Play by Peretz Hirschbein (2007)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (60 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2007
    Uniform Title: Dem rebns koyekh
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    Abstract: "A Vilna Legend" features the classic tale of frustrated love. 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. The film is a unique glimpse into the vibrant Yiddish theatre and cinema of the 1920s. Originally a silent film (1924), the film was re-cut by New York Yiddish actors in 1932, directed by George Roland, with added narration and new scenes which gave the narrative a more dramatic form. The film features Yiddish star Ester-Rokhl Kaminska, in her only screen performance, along with her daughter, Ida Kaminska. [www.nywift.org]
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    The Vow : Based on a Play by Shalom Ansky (2007)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (82 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2007
    Uniform Title: Tkies-kaf
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    Abstract: Two friends make a sacred pact pledging their newborn children, Rachel and Mendel, in marriage. Years pass, Rachel's father dies, and the two children, knowing nothing of their fathers' pledge, meet for the first time and fall in love. But Mendel's father insists his son study at the Vilna Yeshiva, and Rachel's rich old landlord insists on marrying her. Based on the same legend as S. Ansky's classic play "The Dybbuk" this spirited film offers the divine intervention of Elijah and a happy ending. Made in 1937 on the eve of the Holocaust, "The Vow" captures authentic scenes of Jewish shtetl life, Yiddish love songs, and the clash between tradition and modernity. "The Vow" is one of several films inspired by a seminal Yiddish folktale known as the "Vilna Legend". The classic story of love, fate and mysticism was first filmed a silent movie in 1924 under the aegis of the prominent Warsaw studio owner Leo Forbert. (In 1933, the silent movie was re-released as the sound feature "A Vilna Legend" with added narration and a new scene). The success of that production led Forbert to remake "The Vow" as a sound feature in 1937, reuniting many of the actors from the original film and updating the story to modern Poland. During the same year, "The Dybbuk", another interpretaion of the "Vilna Legend" was also adapted for the screen. "The Vow" is a fascinating, long-overlooked companion piece to "The Dybbuk" and ranks with that film as a vitally important work of Yiddish cinema. [www.nywift.org]
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    His Wife's Lover (2007)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (80 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2007
    Uniform Title: Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Billed as the first Jewish musical comedy talking picture, "His Wife"s Lover" stars the popular Yiddish theater comedian Ludwig Satz in one of his only surviving film performances. This fast-paced, song-filled comedy benefits from location camerawork of New York City's Lower East Side and solid direction from Sidney Goldin, director of "East and West" (1923), "Uncle Moses" (1932) and "The Cantor's Son" (1937), features previously restored by NCJF. With a script by a female author, Sheyne Rokhl Simkoff, "His Wife's Lover" revels in its role reversals and love triangles all the while exploring the gender issues of its day. When handsome actor Eddie Wien decides to marry, his uncle Oscar Stein warns that all women are frivolous and selfish, only on the lookout for a fat pocketbook. To prove him wrong, Eddie woos shop girl Golde Blumberg while disguised as a repulsive old millionaire "Herman Weingarten". Golde initially resists "Herman" but, forced to escape her dire financial situation, she finally accepts. A second bet is devised and the elaborate farce continues. In the end, the lovers triumph over deceptions and mistaken identities. [jewishfilm.org]
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    East and West (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (85 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Ost und West
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    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 (the incomparable 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. [jewishfilm.org]
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    His People (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (91 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: His people
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    Abstract: In "His People", the two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are both causing their father grief. Morris, a selfish, ambitious student, wants to become a lawyer, and in doing so tries to hide his background from his friends. Sammy gets a job to help pay his brother's college education, and to his father's horror, becomes a prizefighter and plans to marry an Irish girl. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change in order to preserve the family as a source of love and respect Director Sloman's images of New York's Lower East Side are so evocative that the viewer can almost hear the hustle and bustle of that thriving neighborhood during the 1920s. [www.nywift.org]
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    Two Sisters (2006)
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (78 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Tsvey Shvester
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    Abstract: Is "Two Sisters" domestic tragedy or dark comedy? Any way that you look at it, make sure there's a tissue nearby: On her deathbed in a Bronx tenament, Mrs. Glickstein extracts a promise from her eldest daughter Betty: that she will be both sister and mother to her younger sister Sally, and to do everything to ensure her happiness. From then on Betty works tirelessly supporting her sister through nursing school, her fiancee through medical school and her father in a TB sanatarium only to have her happiness shattered when her sister and fiancee fall in love. Jennie Goldstein puts in a command performance as the "pathological arch-martyr" Betty, including a rampage through her fiancee's office declaring everything, including him, belongs to her! This family drama of personal sacrifice and devotion without end amidst the struggle to succeed in America provides a perfect vehicle for Jennie Goldstein. The screenplay, which combines slapstick humor and deep pathos, is typical of the once-vibrant Second Avenue Yiddish theater and preserves Jennie Goldstein's only film appearance. [jewishfilm.org]
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    Jewish Life in Bialystok (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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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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    The Wandering Jew (2006)
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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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    The Cowboy (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (11 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: The cowboy
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Yes, it's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up: a small boy falls out of a covered wagon on its way West and shows up years later as a quick trigger cowboy. When he is unjustly accused of theft, a gunfight breaks out to the strains of "Oyfn Pripitchik." This spoof was made by adding a Yiddish dialogue to the "Son of Oklahoma", a 1932 Hollywood Western. A hilarious short for a Yiddish-speaking audience! [jewishfilm.org]
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    Jolly Paupers (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (66 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Freylikhe Kabtsonim
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: "Jolly Paupers" combines the rare talents of the Warsaw Art Players under the leadership of Zygmunt Turkow. In this musical comedy, the famous comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. The whole town finds out and thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums (not to mention a little matchmaking on the side). Yet in the face of setbacks, these two simpletons are relentless in their efforts to escape their misery and achieve fame and fortune and refuse to give in to despair. During the last years preceding the outbreak of World War II, the Dzigan and Shumacher comedy revue theatre gained immense popularity. Their satirical monologues and skits provided Jewish audiences with an escape and a rare opportunity to laugh. [jewishfilm.org]
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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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    Yosl Cutler and His Puppets (2006)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (18 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Yosl Cutler and his puppets
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: This film is a performance of one of Yosl Cutler's solo puppet shows. A multi-talented artist, writer, poet, and Yiddish Art Theater designer, Cutler is probably best known as the cartoonist for the Jewish communist newspaper, "The Freiheit". These fanciful and slightly surreal sketches preserve his work with the marionettes he designed, built and brought to life. Puppet personalities in the film include an old Jewish couple, a caricatured Rabbi and a couple of "peppery little Jews" performing traditional Jewish and Jazz dance. [jewishfilm.org]
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    God, Man and Devil : 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 (101 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2006
    Uniform Title: Got, Mentsch un Taybl
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: A wager between God and Satan has dire consequences in this allegory based on the play by Jacob Gordin about the material world's false promises. Beware when money sounds sweeter than music, it cautions; those who win lotteries stand to lose all, including their spiritual treasures, families, communities and religion. Poor, pious Torah scribe Hershele Dubrovner has a life that glorifies God until Satan, disguised as a business partner, turns him into a greedy, dishonest factory owner whose success desecrates both his religion and his community. Betrayal and abandonment replace serenity and familiarity; the instruments of good fortune become instruments of death. Not even music, previously Hershele's joy, can heal these rifts. If the character of Hershele Dubrovner reminds some of Faust and others of Job, its no coincidence as "God, Man and Devil" combines elements of both stories. The wager at the center of the story is that for all his piety, the scribe can be corrupted - not by suffering (as in Job's case) or by the temptation of wealth (as in Faust's case), but by worldly good fortune itself. As the plot develops, Hershele amply confirms Satan's expectations, only to realize the gravity of his error after it is too later to rectify it. It is a simple morality play, timeless even though addressed in its specifics to a particular audience. [jewishfilm.org]
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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
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    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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    Uncle Moses : Based on the Novel by Sholem Asch (2005)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (87 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2005
    Uniform Title: Uncle Moses
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Onkel Moses, ein ehemals armer ostjüdischer Emigrant, betreibt ein florierendes Textilgeschäft in der Lower East Side von New York. Bedenkenlos nimmt er die Tochter eines Angestellten zur Frau, doch die Ehe, in die wegen der wirtschaftlichen Abhängigkeit eingewilligt wurde, verläuft unglücklich. Als die Gewerkschaftsbewegung erstarkt, scheitern auch die geschäftlichen Zukunftspläne. Der in den 30er Jahren spielende Film versucht, ein authentisches Bild des Lebens ostjüdischer Einwanderer in den USA zu vermitteln, und dokumentiert den Umbruch der Traditionen zum modernen amerikanischen Lebensstil. Ein historisch wie kulturell gleichermaßen interessantes Dokument. - Ab 14. [Film-Dienst]
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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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    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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    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
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    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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    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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    Juden in Deutschland 1250-1750 (1996)
    Leip : Raumklang
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 CD
    Year of publication: 1996
    Keywords: CD
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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
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    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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    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
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    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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    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
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    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]
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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
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    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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