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Embroidered Canticles
… Directed by Izza Genini Film about Andalusian Jewish music. Featuring interviews on … be found here ) and Abdelsadek Chekara. Excerpt from the film : … 9 … … 1991 … Moroccan … Rabbi Haim Louk … Andalusian … Izza Genini … Film … Arabic … Nuba … Embroidered Canticles …
Erinhern für die Zukunft: Remember for the future
… Directed by Manfred Lemm This film follows a youth choir, headed by Manfred Lemm who teaches singing in both Yiddish and Polish. In this film they can be seen performing around Germany, learning a …
Falashas No More
… Moses, brought thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. This film deals with the concrete absorption process of these … did not consider their ancient rituals to be Jewish. The film features two scenes with Ethiopian Jewish music. The …
Fiestaremos! Judy Frankel and the Sephardic Music Tradition
… information can be found at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website . … 9 … … Ladino, …
Flight to Freedom
… This short film is about Operation Magic Carpet which brought thousands … Jews to Israel in the late 1940s. While most of the film's soundtrack is comprised of a voice-over recording, … singing can be heard. Furthermore, around the middle of the film , a Yemenite dance is portrayed and heard as many men …
Free voice of Labor: Jewish Anarchists
… and often overlooked part of Jewish history, the film also features quite a few revolutionaly Yiddish songs. The film also features a scene from the 1932 film Uncle Moses . More information can be found at the …
Girona, the Mother of Israel: The Jews of Catalonia
… Directed by Patricia Giniger Snyder Film about the Jews of Girona, a Catalonian city that used to be an important Jewish hub in Spain. The film also discusses Catalan-Ladino folk music. More … information can be found at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website . … 9 … … Ladino, Ladino …
God, Man and Devil
… Directed by Joseph Seiden This Yiddish film brings the classic tale of Faust to the Shtetl. It is … spiral that he is led down. Music plays a major part in the film, most notably the fiddle playing motive that appears at … information can be found at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website . God Man and Devil. …
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
… This film from the 1970s depicts the history of the Israel … their first concert was conducted by Arturo Toscanini. The film features interviews with musicians and conductors, … were regarding Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner (since filming Strauss has been permitted in Israel whereas Wagner …
Golden Voices of Israel
… times such as Yosele Rosenblatt and Moishe Oysher. The film is not a documentary in the sense that there is no … that show the name of each song and its performer. What the film does provide is rare and touching performances from … some of which include female choruses, and scenes from films that the songs were taken from. For example, Moyshe …