The Yiddish cinema / National Center for Jewish film and German TV ZDF present ; producer and writer, Moshe Waldoks ; director, Rich Pontius.
"Nourished by Yiddish literature and theater, Yiddish film production in Eastern Europe and the United States flourished between the two world wars. Using interviews, archival photographs and film clips, the [film] achieves an embrace as comprehensive as its subject, and assigns equal importance to...
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| Language: | English Yiddish Russian |
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In English and Yiddish and Russian with English subtitles. |
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Waltham, MA :
National Center for Jewish Film,
[2006]
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
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"Nourished by Yiddish literature and theater, Yiddish film production in Eastern Europe and the United States flourished between the two world wars. Using interviews, archival photographs and film clips, the [film] achieves an embrace as comprehensive as its subject, and assigns equal importance to music and tradition, comedy and tragedy, actors and directors. The film traces the decline of the cinema and the language, discussing the Holocaust's decimation of European Jewry, Stalinist suppression of Jewish culture and the New World's demands for assimilation"--Publisher's description. |
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| Note: | "The Rutenberg & Everett Yiddish Film Library of The National Center for Jewish Film."--Container. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1991. Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | PN1995.9.Y54 Y52 2006 VideoDVD |
| ISBN: | 1585872091 9781585872091 |
| Credits: | Executive producers, Henry Felt, Sharon Pucker Rivo; for German TV ZDF: Ronny Loewy, Hans Peter Kochenrath, Walter Schobert. |
| System Details: | DVD, NTSC, region all. |
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Narrator, David Mamet. |