The Jester - Der Purimshpiler
Feature. 90 minutes, B&W
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1937
Jolly Paupers - Freylekhe kabtsonim
Feature. 62 min., B&W, Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Leon Jeannot and Z. Turkow
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1937
Mamele
Feature. 100 min., B&W, Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
Starring: Molly Picon
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1938
Yiddle With His Fiddle - Yidl mitn fidl
Feature. 92 minutes, B&W, Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
Material Type:
Films
Fiddler on the Roof
181 min., color
Directed by Norman Jewison
Starring: Chaim Topol, Norma Crane, Molly Picon, Paul Michael Glaser, Leonard Frey, and Michele Marsh
This classic Hollywood musical is an adaptation of Joseph Stein's hit play based on Sholem Aleichem's novel, "Tevye the Dairyman" (Tevye der milkhiker).
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1971
Catskills Honeymoon
93 min., B&W, English and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Josef Berne
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1949
American Matchmaker - Amerikaner Shadkhn
Feature. 87 min. B & W
Screenplay by S. Castle
Music and Lyrics by Sam Morgenstern, William Mercur
Starring Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinksy, Anna Guskin, Celia Bodkin, Abraham Lax
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1940
The Singing Blacksmith - Yankl der schmid
Feature. USA, 95 min. Yiddish with English subtitles.
Director: Edgar Ulmer
Yiddish musical, with cantorial legend Moishe Oysher.
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1938
Too Early To Be Quiet, Too Late To Sing
Documentary. Yiddish and Hebrew w/ English subtitles. 53 min.
Material Type:
Films
Year:
1995
מיר טראגן א געאגנג [We Carry a Song]
Author
One of the best collection of Yiddish songs, with explanations in English.
Material Type:
Scores
Year:
1972
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.