The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema
Too often segregated within an academic and cultural niche, Yiddish cinema is in fact a varied and vibrant genre ripe for reappraisal. Whether shot in the fields of Poland or makeshift studios in Manhattan, Yidishe Kino endure not only as precious documents of a vanishing culture, but a fascinating …
The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema - Mir Kumen On (Children Must Laugh)
Polish-made window into a little socialist paradise: a rural tuberculosis sanatorium set up by Jewish workers’ organizations for poor city kids, run democratically by the young patients themselves.
The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema - Tevya
Maurice Schwartz, the greatest of all Tevyas, recreates his original stage role as the philosophical shtetl dairyman in viciously anti-Semitic Czarist Russia. Based on the Sholom Aleichem stories.
The Jewish Soul: Classics of Yiddish Cinema - The Dybbuk
A young bride is possessed by the spirit of her dead husband’s dislocated soul. Based on the Yiddish theater’s most memorable play.