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Chasidic in America
… 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 Goldin (who …
Zalmen Mlotek
… composer, and the Artistic Director of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF), the longest continuous running Yiddish theatre in the world. He is an internationally recognized authority on Yiddish folk and theater music and a leading figure in the …

Ouverture to Glory - Der Vilner shtot khazn
… Feature. 77 min., B&W, Yiddish with English subt. Directed by Max Nosseck The …

Edge of the West
Directed by Arnan Zafrir
This hour long film documents the different traditions and…
Leonard Bernstein: Reflections
Directed by Peter Rosen
In this film Leonard Bernstein tells his story, from his…
Haynt Iz Purim, Brider
… This is an example of the presence of the Purim song in the Yiddish song revival in Germany. … Haynt Iz Purim, Brider … is one of the most familiar songs in the American Yiddish repertoire for Purim. It has appeared in many … Samuel E. Goldfarb’s Hamenagen [1] (1925). The song in both Yiddish and Hebrew (the latter language is important as we …

Jewish Sabbath in Amsterdam - Vrijdagavord-Jodenbuurt Amsterdam
Directed by G.J. Teunissen
This short film features scenes in Amsterdam as people are…

A Man from Munkasc: Gypsy Klezmer
… for Jews for so many years that some of them spoke a fluent Yiddish. The film examines how this persecuted group (the … … 51 … 51 … 9 … 35730 … Duna TV (Hungary) and Starcrest Films (Frankfurt, Germany). … … 2005 … Holocaust … Klezmer musicians … Klezmer music … Yiddish … World War II - 2nd World War - WW2 … Klezmer … …
Léibele Schwartz
… the Abasto quarter, one of the four theaters that presented Yiddish musicals and vaudevilles during the Golder Era of Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires. He appeared as actor and … in the musical A fon vert geboyrn ( A flag is born ), an Yiddish adaptation of Ben Hecht’s Zionist fundraiser pageant …
Socalled Movie
… demonstrates how he made a hip-hop sample from an old Yiddish record: Additional excerpt from the film that …