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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 Chanuka. 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 …
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… Di beyde Kunilemel [4] in the award winning 1966 Israeli film Shnei Kuni Lemel , starring Mike Burstyn and directed by Israel Beker. The film originates in the Hebrew staging of Shenei Kuni Lemel … Shimon Cohen composed the original soundtrack for the 1966 film, which eventually found itself back on the stage as a …