Database of documentaries, features and other film footage that contain relevant materials on Jewish and Israeli music. It also includes articles that discuss aspects of Jewish and Israeli musical representation in films.
Database of documentaries, features and other film footage that contain relevant materials on Jewish and Israeli music. It also includes articles that discuss aspects of Jewish and Israeli musical representation in films.
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Directed by Dan Katzir
Directed by Sylvie Anne Goldberg and Alex Szalat
This film is about Yiddish culture in Paris. The soundtrack features Yiddish songs and there are also performances of songs such as, David Meyerovitz's Vos Geven is Geven Un Mito and Jennie Goldstein and Morris Rund's Ikh Bin a Mame. Both are performed by Talila, the Jewish French singer and actress.
Directed by Cordelia Stone and Pierre Sauvage
Produced by Pierre Sauvage
Directed by Barbara Kopple
Directed by Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto
Directed by Yehuda Yaniv
Directed by John Ferno
This film, narrated by Laurence Olivier, contains performances of both secular and religious music in Israel. This includes praying at the Western Wall, a Jazz version of the Song of Songs, an Upsherin (the ceremonial first haircut when a boy is three years old) ceremony with dancing and singing, and lighting of Hannuka candles in different traditions such as, Persian, Yemenite, and secular.Directed by Helmar Lerski
This film is a docu-drama about a young holocaust survivor in the children's village of Ben-Shemen. At around the half hour mark there is a Shabbat dinner ceremony in which the children and the adults sing Louis Lewandowski's version of Lecha Dodi, a tune that brings solace and calm to the film's protagonist.