… The commercially-inspired music of the Yiddish-language film of the 1930s in Poland and the United States provides … Not intending to document a soon-to-vanish world, filmmakers and film composers deployed a number of myths, strategies, and …

…  Directed by Joseph Green Classic Yiddish film from 1939 with music by Abe Ellstein . In this film music is integral to the development of the plot and in addition to the film's central melody that acts as a leitmotif throughout …

… Directed by Joseph Seiden This film from the early 1940s presents the scenes and songs from … and cinema. It compiles scenes from Joseph Seiden's films and presents them as a variety show, hosted by Larry … Shalom Secunda , an important composer of Yiddish songs in film and theater during the 1930s through the 1950s. There …

… a contract with Fox Studios, but after producing only two films, The Valiant and Seven Faces , he returned to the … screen playing the role of mobster Tony Camonte in the film Scarface (1932). That same year, he appeared in the film I am a Fugative from a Chain Gang , which marked the …

… Directed by Barbara Kopple In this documentary film director Barbara Kopple follows Woody Allen on a rare … jazz band. One could raise the question whether this film is relevant to Jewish music or not. Its relevance can … looking over the past five decades; Woody Allen's name and films have become synecdoches for American Jewish culture. …

… Directed by Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto This 1932 film, based on Shalom Asch's novel, was one of the first American Yiddish films. It deals with many of the issues that occupied the … the latter, are expressed through the music of the film. One example is the niggun that Uncle Moses' father …

… Directed by Helmar  Lerski This film is a docu-drama about a young holocaust survivor in the … of Lecha Dodi, a tune that brings solace and calm to the film's protagonist. Complete film on Youtube, courtesy of the Steven Spielberg Jewish …

… Directed by Gili Gaon Film about Israeli musician Dudu Tassa and the music of his … musicians in Iraq during the 1930s. More information on the film can be found at Ruth Diskin Films' Website .   The Film's trailer :   … 9 … 34217 … … …

… its numbers have steeply decreased. This emmy-award winning film interviews American Yiddish speakers including actors … Different aspects of the culture are discussed such as film, poetry and music.       There are a few scenes in the film where Yiddish music is heard and performed. Some of …

… by Russ Karel   Yiddish talking cinema burst into the film scene after the release of the first talkie, The Jazz Singer in 1927. Over the next 13 years more than 300 films were made in Yiddish. In Almonds and Raisins (named … scan the history of the genre from some of the earlier films such as Uncle Moses (1932) through some of the later …