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  • AV-Medium  (7)
  • 2010-2014  (7)
  • Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film  (7)
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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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    Old Isaac, the Pawnbroker (2013)
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    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (15 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2013
    Uniform Title: Old Isaac, the pawnbroker
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: A small girl in an urban slum goes out to seek aid for her sick and starving mother. She goes first to the offices of the Amalgamated Association of Charities, where she is caught up in red tape as the case workers ask questions and offer no immediate aid. Desperate, the little girl then goes to a neighborhood pawnshop hoping to get some money for food. She brings in a pair of old shoes which the pawnbroker's assistant rejects. Then she returns with her doll. This innocent gesture of selflessness attracts the attention of old Isaac, who runs the shop. Hearing the little girl's story, he sets out for her apartment where he stops the men who are trying to evict the sick woman. He pays the rent, provides food and medical care, and even gives the girl a big new doll. The portrayal of Old Isaac here contrasts sharply with the comic scheming merchant characters of the time. Not only is Isaac not interested in profiting from others misfortune, he is charitable and compassionate, and in a way that differs sharply from the heartlessness of official charities. It is interesting to note that antisemitism appeared in American cinema almost exclusively in comedies. Melodramas generally presented Jewish characters sympathetically and this film inaugurated a series of films involving compassionate Jewish pawnbrokers. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: stumm
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    Mamele : Based on a Play by Meyer Schwartz (2013)
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    Language: Yiddish
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (97 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2013
    Uniform Title: Mamele
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    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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    Punk Jews (2013)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (56 Min.) , teilw. schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2013
    Uniform Title: Punk jews
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Profiling Hassidic punk rockers, Yiddish street performers, African-American Jewish activists and more, "Punk Jews" explores an emerging movement of provocateurs and committed Jews who are asking, each in his or her own way, what it means to be Jewish in the 21st century. Jewish artists, activists and musicians from diverse backgrounds and communities are defying norms and expressing their Jewish identities in unconventional ways. In the process, they are challenging stereotypes and breaking down barriers. Meet Yishai, lead singer of Moshiach Oi; Radical performance group, the Sukkos Mob; the renegade Orthodox participants of Cholent; the Amazing Amy Yoga Yenta; Kal Holczler, founder of Voices of Dignity; and African American Jewish hip hop sensation Y-Love. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: engl.
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    Our Time in the Garden (2012)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (15 Min.) , schwarz-weiß
    Year of publication: 2012
    Uniform Title: Our time in the garden
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Following its World Premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, "Our Time in the Garden" screened a major film festivals, theaters and museums world wide, including the Cinema du Reel Festival and the Museum of Modern Art. This moving experimental short uses re-photographed home movies and overlapping soundtracks to relate one woman's true memoir of growing up Jewish in 1930s Berlin. She describes her family's charmed and secure life, at the center of which is a walled garden, leading up to their flight from Germany in the face of Nazism and antisemitism. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: engl.
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    Singing in the Dark (2010)
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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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    Yizkor (2010)
    Waltham : The National Center for Jewish Film
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    ISBN: 1585874744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 DVD-Video (23 Min.) , farbig
    Year of publication: 2010
    Uniform Title: Yizkor
    Keywords: DVD-Video
    Abstract: Winner of the 2010 Student Academy Award™ Gold Medal for Documentary, Ruth Fertig's "Yizkor" (Remembrance) uses animation by Jeanne Stern, archival film, home movies and Super 8 footage to tell her grandmother's story of survival and resilience in the face of crushing loss. Like many Holocaust survivors, Liselotte Fertigova never spoke with her children about her experiences during the war. After her death, the family uncovered a memoir she had written in the last years of her life. With surprising frankness and humor, Liselotte's words convey the day-to-day realities of a pregnant woman and young mother struggling to keep her family alive inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp. In telling her grandmother's very personal story, Fertig employs an inventive visual style. [jewishfilm.org]
    Note: engl.
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