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Bar Mitzvah
… of her son's bar mitzvah after a ten-year absence. Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film … is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. Description from and more information can …
God, Man and Devil
… Directed by Joseph Seiden This Yiddish film brings the classic tale of Faust to the Shtetl. … University website . God Man and Devil. Painting by theater actor and director Israel Beker. Picture taken from … Clip) from Jewish Daily Forward on Vimeo . … 9 … … 1949 … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Joseph Seiden … Film … …
His Wife's Lover
… His Wife's Lover (Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik) is a classic of Yiddish cinema and is about Eddie Wien (played by famous Yiddish stage actor Ludwig Satz) who dresses up as an old … … 1931 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Sidney Goldin … Ludwig Satz … Ashkenazi … His …
Mazel Tov Yidden
… from the early 1940s presents the scenes and songs from Yiddish vaudeville and cinema. It compiles scenes from … were composed by Shalom Secunda , an important composer of Yiddish songs in film and theater during the 1930s through the 1950s. There are many …
Our Children - Unzere Kinder
… Goskind This semi-documentary film (and Poland’s last Yiddish feature) features the comedy duo Szymon Dzigan and … Jewish Film at Brandeis University website . … 9 … … 1948 … Yiddish … Yiddish Films … Yiddish songs … Yiddish Theater … Poland … Holocaust … Dzigan and Shumacher … Our …
Shabbat Hamalcah
… and I.L Peretz, tells the tale of a young man, played by Yiddish theater and Broadway actor Mike Bursyn, who is transported …
Dort wo die Zeder: A Forgotten Zionist Anthem in German
… a pioneer Zionist journal edited by the Zionist leader and Yiddishist Nathan Birnbaum. Titled ‘Sehnsucht,’ the poem is … In dieses liebes, trautes Vaterland! Hebrew and Yiddish translations Dort wo die Zeder was soon translated … by Leon Kalisch (born in 1882), a member of the “Jüdischen Theaters in Lemberg” that was active in Vienna. [15] It was …
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
… is of Zypora Spaisman, who dedicated her life to keeping Yiddish theater and culture alive into the 21st century and the … eight days of her production of Peretz Hirschbein's 1916 Yiddish play, Grine Felder (Green Fields). These eight days …
Chasidic in America
… and actress, Florence Weiss. They performed it on the theater stage, 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 …
Bazetsens (LKT)
… found... [this tune] on a copy of a 78 recording of a Yiddish theater wedding scene. It is peformed by the State Ensemble …