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Format: 1 CD-Audio (73 Min.)

Content: "Ganz traditionell kommt Nizza Thobis Album Jiddisch is gor nischt asoj schwer (David Records) daher. Thobi präsentiert osteuropäische Melodien und israelisches Liedgut. Musikalische Revolutionen darf man da nicht erwarten. Aber was die Interpretin stimmlich und vor allem emotional zu bieten hat, vom Pianisten und Arrangeur Peter Wegele und der Geigerin Katarina Bassez ebenso brillant wie einfühlsam begleitet, kann allen, die sich für jiddische Lieder interessieren, nur wärmstens empfohlen werden." Jüdische Allgemeine Nr. 10/06 | 9. März 2006 Jonathan Scheiner [www.nizza-thobi.com]

Note: Oventlid , Unter di grininke bejmelech , Schtiler, schtiler , Zwischen zwei Punkten verläuft nur eine Gerade , Geto , Asma Asmaton , Jiddisch is gor nischt asoj schwer , Git mir op Mazl-Tov , Verriegelt ist meine Tür , Nigun 2nd Baal Shem E. Bloch , A Dudele , Don Bueso y su hermana , Tzu schpejt , Deine weißen Sohlen , S'brent , Un a jingele wet sej firn , 〈〈Ein〉〉 Gelübde

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: CD

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (89 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Series Statement: Trésors du cinéma Yiddish

Uniform Title: Tevye

Content: Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave, Tevye the Dairyman's daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. Her courtship and marriage pit Tevye's love for his daughter against his deep-seated faith and loyalty to tradition. The clash between tradition and modernity, parental authority and love, customs and enlightenment are foreshadowed by the antisemitism of the rural community. Tevye's world is a microcosm of the larger world of Russian Jewry in the early 1900s. [www.jewishfilm.org]

Note: enthält außerdem: , Our Future [Unzer Zukunft] (1946) , jidd. / UT: engl. ; franz.

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 2 DVD-Videos (118 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Series Statement: Trésors du cinéma Yiddish

Uniform Title: Der Dibuk

Content: "The Dybbuk" is a Yiddish film classic based on the celebrated play of the same name by S. Ansky, written during the turbulent years of 1912-1917. The idea for the play came to Ansky as he led a Jewish folklore expedition through small towns of Eastern Europe, which was cut short by the outbreak of World War I. The Dybbuk reflects Ansky's deep perception of the shtetl's religious and cultural mores, as well as his insightful appreciation of its hidden spiritual resources. Plans to produce the play in Russian by Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater in 1920 were aborted by the Bolshevik Revolution. Ansky, who died in 1920 never lived to see his play produced. The play however, was destined to become one of the most widely-produced in the history of Jewish theater. Its rich ethnographic tapestry, mystical themes, star-crossed lovers and haunting melodies were designed to bridge the historical abyss. Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession. The film was made on location in Poland in 1937 and brought together the best talents of Polish Jewry, script writers, composers, choreographers, set designers, actors and historical advisors. The film's exquisite musical and dance interludes evoke the cultural richness of both shtetl communities and Polish Jewry on the eve of World War II. [www.jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. / UT: engl. ; franz.

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (90 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Der Purimshpiler

Content: "The Jester" was co-directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylsk in 1937, following the great success of their film "Yiddle with His Fiddle" the previous year. Green who had emigrated from Poland to the United States in 1924, returned to Poland with the American Yiddish theater stars (and then married couple) Miriam Kressyn and Hymie Jacobson for the procuction. Shot on location on a farm outside of Warsaw and in the predominantly-Jewish town of Kazimierz, near Lublin, the film also stars Zygmunt Turkow, co-founder with Ida Kaminska of the Warsaw Yiddish Art Theater. The film premiered in Warsaw in September 1937 and opened in New York City three months later. This musical drama stars a lonely wanderer, a circus performer and Esther, the shoemaker's daughter, whose family tries to marry her into a prominent family. One of the film's centerpieces is a Purim shpil (Purim play) with its parade of costumes and music. The Jester's lively circus and vaudeville music and set pieces provide a glimpse of Warsaw's then-thriving Yiddish revues and cabarets, which were destroyed soon after. Many of the film's Polish-Jewish crew and actors were killed during the Holocaust, giving the film's touches of melancholy an even more profound reading for today's audiences. Another important historical note: In 1941, the Nazis appropriated a segment from The Jester's Purim play scene for use in their notorious antisemitic propaganda film "Der ewige Jude" (The Eternal Jew). [jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. mit engl. UT

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (11 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: A cantor on trial

Content: This short gem features Louis "Leibele" Waldman playing three different parts - first an old-world Eastern European, then a German, each auditioning to be the synagogue cantor. Displeased with what they've heard and unable to agree, the synagogue committee is visited by Leibele's agent who offers them a third alternative: a modern an American Chazan, with "pep and jazz" who can do Kol Nidre with a "two-step" and Netaneh Tokef with a "Black Bottom" (a popular 1920s dance). [jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. mit engl. UT

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (101 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Got, Mentsch un Taybl

Content: A wager between God and Satan has dire consequences in this allegory based on the play by Jacob Gordin about the material world's false promises. Beware when money sounds sweeter than music, it cautions; those who win lotteries stand to lose all, including their spiritual treasures, families, communities and religion. Poor, pious Torah scribe Hershele Dubrovner has a life that glorifies God until Satan, disguised as a business partner, turns him into a greedy, dishonest factory owner whose success desecrates both his religion and his community. Betrayal and abandonment replace serenity and familiarity; the instruments of good fortune become instruments of death. Not even music, previously Hershele's joy, can heal these rifts. If the character of Hershele Dubrovner reminds some of Faust and others of Job, its no coincidence as "God, Man and Devil" combines elements of both stories. The wager at the center of the story is that for all his piety, the scribe can be corrupted - not by suffering (as in Job's case) or by the temptation of wealth (as in Faust's case), but by worldly good fortune itself. As the plot develops, Hershele amply confirms Satan's expectations, only to realize the gravity of his error after it is too later to rectify it. It is a simple morality play, timeless even though addressed in its specifics to a particular audience. [jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. mit engl. UT

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (73 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Libe und laydnshaft

Content: Based on the novel "Love and Passion" by Isidore Zolotarefsky "Love and Sacrifice" is a prime example of "shund", the melodramatic theatrical escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. It opened at the Clinton Theater April 7, 1936 and was held over three weeks as the most popular Yiddish movie the Clinton had shown to date. Produced by Joseph Seiden over two days in a loft in New York City on a miniscule budget, this tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her was a tremendous success. The story of a long-suffering mother who goes to prison for shooting a would-be suitor employs many archetypes of Yiddish theater. From the conflict between the sacrificing mother and the homewrecking schemer, to the reunion of parent and child at a celebratory wedding the film provides a classic example of the Yiddish-American cinema. [jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. mit engl. UT

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (112 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: A brivele der mamen

Content: Die melodramatische Geschichte einer jiddischen Familie in der Ukraine, von der Jahrhundertwende bis nach Beendigung des Ersten Weltkrieges. Im Mittelpunkt die Mutter, die bemüht ist, die Familie durchzubringen, jedoch langsam deren Zerfall miterleben muß: Ihr Mann verläßt das Dorf heimlich, um in Amerika zu Reichtum und Ehre zu kommen; die Tochter erlebt die unglückliche Beziehung zu einem Tanzlehrer; der Krieg beraubt sie des ältesten Sohnes. Schließlich fährt sie ebenfalls nach Amerika, um das jüngste Kind wiederzufinden, das der Vater einst nachkommen ließ, und entdeckt, daß er inzwischen zu einem berühmten Sänger aufgestiegen ist. Der interessante polnische Vorkriegsfilm mischt publikumswirksam ein anrührendes Hohelied der "jiddischen Mame" mit realistischen Einblicken in eine unterdrückte Kultur. Nicht nur als historisches Dokument von Interesse. - Ab 14. [Film-Dienst]

Note: jidd. mit engl. UT

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (11 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Jewish life in Vilna

Content: This rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work, at play, in the synagogue, and in school. Vilna's famous landmarks - the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute - are among the film's highlights. [jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. mit engl. UT

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video

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Format: 1 DVD-Video (107 Min.) , schwarz-weiß

Uniform Title: Yankl der Schmid

Content: Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer's musical version of David Pinski's play "Yankl der Shmid". Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmer's lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing. [jewishfilm.org]

Note: jidd. mit engl. UT

Language: Yiddish

Keywords: DVD-Video