UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15244614
Format:
1 DVD-Video (60 Min.) : s/w und Farbe
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NTSC
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DVD-R
ISBN:
1585872091
Content:
Narrated by prolific playwright David Mamet, this film is a perfect way to introduce new audiences to Yiddish cinema. Nourished by Yiddish literature and theater, Yiddish film production in Eastern Europe and the United States flourished between the two world wars. The Yiddish Cinema traces the history of the genre through interviews, archival photographs and film clips of many of the NCJF's Yiddish feature films. In addition, the film discusses the reasons for the decline of Yiddish cinema, including the Holocaust, the Stalinist suppression of Jewish culture in the Soviet Union, and America's demands for assimiliation among its new immigrants. (NCJF)
Content:
Beginning with a brief history of Yiddish language and culture, the history of Yiddish cinema is recounted, using excerpts from Yiddish films: A Letter to Mother (1939), Tevye (1939, Jewish luck (1925), The Dybbuk (1937), Yiddle with his fiddle (1936), The Jester (1937), The Light ahead (1939), Uncle Moses (1932), Greenfields (1937), American matchmaker (1940). This documentary was produced "to augment the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective, 'Yiddish film between two worlds'." (York University)
Note:
Ländercode: 0
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Orig.: USA/ Deutschland, 1991
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jiddisch
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Film
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Geschichte
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Mamet, David
