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Bar Mitzvah
… Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of … information can be found at the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University website . Clip of Boris Thomashefsky in his only film role singing in the film Bar Mitzvah … 9 … 34244 … … …
As long As I Live
… Directed by Edgar Hirshbain This film portrays the rituals of many of the Jewish holidays. … and the Simchat Torah dancing at a synagogue. Complete film on Youtube, courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual Cinema: … 9 … 34245 … … Hillula … Meron …
And on the Seventh Day. Et au Septieme Jour [JIMF]
… what those featured in the video are chanting. Complete film on Youtube, courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual Cinema: Written by Eliahu Adelman …
Almonds and Raisins
… by Russ Karel Yiddish talking cinema burst into the film scene after the release of the first talkie, The Jazz Singer in 1927. Over the next 13 years more than 300 films were made in Yiddish. In Almonds and Raisins (named … scan the history of the genre from some of the earlier films such as Uncle Moses (1932) through some of the later …
About the Jews of Yemen, A Vanishing Culture
… This film, by renowned ethnomusicologist Johanna Spector, … Yemenite tradition are a main focal point throughout the film. In it there are scenes of praying, Heena ceremonies of …
A Pintale Id
… Director: Alan Ezequiel Jais This film is about a play about a Jewish Argentinean radio show … and Jewish. The songs featured and performed in the film are: A Quinte in Castela, A Yiddish Lidele, …
A musical passage
… Film about the Jewish Soviet Emigre Orchestra. … 9 … 34252 …
A letter to mother - A Brivele der Mamen
… 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 …
A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden
… This film documents the American klezmer music revival that began … information and a preview of the first 26 minutes of the film. Excerpt from the film featuring the Klezmer Conservatory Band playing ' A …
A Free People
… Directed by Michael Elkins In this film about immigration to Israel from Europe and Egypt there … rituals. The first occurs towards the beginning of the film in which a Mourner's Kaddish is recited in remembrance … it is about the defeat of tyranny over man. Complete film on Youtube, courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Jewish …