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Uncle Moses
… Directed by Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto This 1932 film, based on Shalom Asch's novel, was one of the first American Yiddish films. It deals with many of the issues that occupied the … the latter, are expressed through the music of the film. One example is the niggun that Uncle Moses' father …
Wild Man Blues
… Directed by Barbara Kopple In this documentary film director Barbara Kopple follows Woody Allen on a rare … jazz band. One could raise the question whether this film is relevant to Jewish music or not. Its relevance can … looking over the past five decades; Woody Allen's name and films have become synecdoches for American Jewish culture. …
Yiddish – The Mame Loshn (Yiddish - the Mother Tongue)
… its numbers have steeply decreased. This emmy-award winning film interviews American Yiddish speakers including actors … Different aspects of the culture are discussed such as film, poetry and music. There are a few scenes in the film where Yiddish music is heard and performed. Some of …
Le Blues du Yiddish
… Directed by Sylvie Anne Goldberg and Alex Szalat This film is about Yiddish culture in Paris. The soundtrack …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… Directed by Dan Katzir This film tells a dual tale. The first is of Zypora Spaisman, who … the 21st century and the hardships which that entailed. The film, shot over the last eight days of the year 2000, … coincided with the eight days of Hanukkah. Throughout the film, the viewer is exposed to what seems like a hopeless …
Yippee
… Directed by Paul Mazursky Yippee is a documentary film directed by and starring American actor and director Paul Mazursky. In this film, for reasons which he cannot explain, Mazursky decides … Jews to the grave of Rabbi Nahman of Breslov (MeUman). The film provides an interesting insight of the world of the …
Chasidic in America
… in North and South America, and in the 1937 Yiddish film The Cantor’s Son (Dem Khazns Zundyl) . O ne of the most successful American Yiddish films, The Cantor's Son was directed by Sidney Goldin (who stepped down before the film was completed due to heart failure) and Ilya Motyleff …
Alicia Svigals
… pianist Marilyn Lerner perform live to screenings of the film. Taken from Alicia Svigal's website: …
Hatikvah: Conceptions, Receptions and Reflections
… It reappeared as recently as 2007 in an Israeli documentary film directed by Reuven Hecker and titled precisely Lekh leshalom geshem . The film cleverly focuses on the Sephardic tune as the most … is the most widespread one in websites, publications and films carrying the history of the tune of Hatikvah . This …
Vemen vestu zingen, vemen? Leibu Levin Performs in Yiddish
… around the centennial of Levin’s birth is a partial fulfilment of Lifshitz’s wish. This CD is based on the …