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His Wife's Lover (2007)

Goldin, Sidney M. [Regisseur] ; Zucker, Frank [Kameramann] ; Satz, Ludwig [Schauspieler] ; [et al.]

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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The Wandering Jew (2006)

Roland, George [Regisseur] ; Zucker, Frank [Kameramann] ; Contner, J. Burgi [Kameramann] ; [et al.]

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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The Cantor's Son (2006)

Motyleff, Ilya [Regisseur] ; Goldin, Sidney M. [Regisseur] ; Zucker, Frank [Kameramann] ; [et al.]

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]

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Uncle Moses : Based on the Novel by Sholem Asch (2005)

Scotto, Aubrey [Regisseur] ; Goldin, Sidney M. [Regisseur] ; Zucker, Frank [Kameramann] ; [et al.]

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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