Database of documentaries, features and other film footage that contain relevant materials on Jewish and Israeli music. It also includes articles that discuss aspects of Jewish and Israeli musical representation in films.
Directed by Michael Liben
Directed by Henry Lynn
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.
Directed by Edgar Hirshbain
Directed by Erez Verdena
Nachum Arieli presents this program about Harav Kook. Musical versions of Kook's poems, composed by different composers, are interspersed throughout the program and they include:
Directed by Russ Karel
Director: Alan Ezequiel Jais
Film about the Jewish Soviet Emigre Orchestra.
Directed by Joseph Green
Classic Yiddish film from 1939 with music by Abe Ellstein. In this film music is integral to the development of the plot and in addition to the film's central melody that acts as a leitmotif throughout the film, a Passover seder is also featured and a few non-religious Yiddish songs are sung during the course of the film.
This film documents the American klezmer music revival that began in the mid 1970s and the bands, such as Kaypelye and the Klezmer Conservatory Band that helped start it. The Folkstreams website provides more information and a preview of the first 26 minutes of the film.
