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Blue Note: The Story of Modern Jazz
… Alfred Lion and Frank Wolff: two German Jews who emigrated from Nazi Germany to New York in the 1930s and 'discovered' … an art form which at the time received scant attention from mainstream America. Without money or connections, … Gordon, Ron Carter and Horace Silver. Wonderful anecdotes from musicians, associates and friends interspersed with …
American Matchmaker - Amerikaner Shadkhn
… last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish …
Yiddle With His Fiddle - Yidl mitn fidl
… Director Green returned to his native Poland from America to produce this film, the most commercially … with 'another' father-son duo for music, comedy and romance. Green's original screenplay was enhanced by the … Ellstein, as well as the talents of Leon Leibold, the romantic lead. Yhe film was shot on location in the …
Mamele
… Molly Picon Picon stars as Khavtshi, a young woman who promises her dying mother that she will take care of her …
The Jester - Der Purimshpiler
… both the shoemaker's scheme to marry Esther into a prominent family in the community as well as the festival of …
The Cantor's Son - Dem Khazns Zindl
… in the title role of a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side (the … with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. Excerpt from the film featuring Oysher with real life wife Florence …
Great Cantors of the Golden Age, Great Cantors in Cinema
… Simon Great Cantors of the Golden Age includes highlights from Yiddish filmmaker Joseph Seiden’s 1931 film The Voice of … include seven cantorial pieces newly restored by NCJF from rare film footage, some of which have never been seen …
The Jazz Singer
… hall. Punished by his father, a cantor, Jakie runs away from home. Some years later, now calling himself Jack Robin, …
Chants de sable et d'etoiles - Chants of Sand and Stars
… of traditional music in Sephardic Jewish communities - from the Middle East, via America, to Africa. A unique … of footage of chazzanot, or Jewish liturgical pieces, from across the Jewish world, and an investigation of its …
The Key from Spain: The Songs and Stories of Flory Jagoda
… on the life of Flory Jagoda, a survivor of World War II from Sarajevo, Bosnia. Flory Jagoda is an acclaimed performer … be found at JSTOR Bibliographical information: The Key from Spain by Ankica Petrovic; Mischa Livingstone Review … … Bosnia … Documentary … Jagoda, Flory … Ladino … The Key from Spain: The Songs and Stories of Flory Jagoda …