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A Pintale Id
… radio show and about the beginnings of the Jewish Yiddish theater and culture in Argentina during the 1950s. It also tells the story of the decline of the usage of Yiddish by Argentinian Jewry. The play features both Yiddish …
Bar Mitzvah
… of her son's bar mitzvah after a ten-year absence. Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film … is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. Description from and more information can …
God, Man and Devil
… Directed by Joseph Seiden This Yiddish film brings the classic tale of Faust to the Shtetl. … University website . God Man and Devil. Painting by theater actor and director Israel Beker. Picture taken from … from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo . … 9 … 34228 … … 1949 … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Joseph Seiden … Film … …
His Wife's Lover
… His Wife's Lover (Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik) is a classic of Yiddish cinema and is about Eddie Wien (played by famous Yiddish stage actor Ludwig Satz) who dresses up as an old … … 1931 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Sidney Goldin … Ludwig Satz … Ashkenazi … His …
Mazel Tov Yidden
… from the early 1940s presents the scenes and songs from Yiddish vaudeville and cinema. It compiles scenes from … were composed by Shalom Secunda , an important composer of Yiddish songs in film and theater during the 1930s through the 1950s. There are many …
Our Children - Unzere Kinder
… Goskind This semi-documentary film (and Poland’s last Yiddish feature) features the comedy duo Szymon Dzigan and … at Brandeis University website . … 9 … 34192 … … 1948 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Poland … Holocaust … Dzigan and Shumacher … Our …
Shabbat Hamalcah
… and I.L Peretz, tells the tale of a young man, played by Yiddish theater and Broadway actor Mike Bursyn, who is transported …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… a pioneer Zionist journal edited by the Zionist leader and Yiddishist Nathan Birnbaum. Titled ‘Sehnsucht,’ the poem is … In dieses liebes, trautes Vaterland! Hebrew and Yiddish translations Dort wo die Zeder was soon translated … by Leon Kalisch (born in 1882), a member of the “Jüdischen Theaters in Lemberg” that was active in Vienna. [15] It was …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… is of Zypora Spaisman, who dedicated her life to keeping Yiddish theater and culture alive into the 21st century and the … eight days of her production of Peretz Hirschbein's 1916 Yiddish play, Grine Felder (Green Fields). These eight days …
Chasidic in America
… and actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the theater stage, in concerts 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 …