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Mordecai Gebirtig
… volume in 1942 and in 1948. His most famous work, Undzer Shtetl Brent (“Our Town is Burning”) was written in response …
Nikolai Kaufman
… according to family history, he lived earlier on in small shtetls near Odessa. This important family information is …
From Shtetl to Swing
… … Documentary … Swing … Jazz … Eastern Ashkenazi … From Shtetl to Swing …
The Singing Blacksmith - Yankl der schmid
… Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to …
The Dybbuk - Der dibuk
… War I. The Dybbuk reflects Ansky's deep perception of the shtetl's religious and cultural mores, as well as his … interludes evoke the cultural richness of both pre-WWI shtetl communities and Polish Jewry on the eve of WWII. … … Theater … Klezmer … Actors … Poland … Drama … Feature … Shtetl … The Dybbuk - Der dibuk …
Yiddle With His Fiddle - Yidl mitn fidl
… the picturesque town of Kazimierz and nearby Warsaw. With shtetl inhabitants as extras, the film captures the vitality …
The Jester - Der Purimshpiler
… by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski Set in a Galician shtetl before the First World War, this musical comedy …
The Cantor's Son - Dem Khazns Zindl
… role of a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side (the film includes rare …
The Epstein Brothers Orchestra: Kings of Freylekh Land
… transforming the celebratory music of the Eastern European shtetl into an urban expression of North American Jewry. … 7 …
Klassic Klezmer
… 10. Mi Ha'isch 11. Tatei Freilach 12. Ghetto / Unzer Shtetl brent 13. Give me a lift to Tsfat 14. That Freilach …