Eve Sicular is a cinema scholar, co-curator of the Yiddish New York Film Festival and a former curator of film & photo archives at YIVO Institute. She is also the drummer/bandleader for Metropolitan Klezmer and Isle of Klezbos, whose latest album is “Yiddish Silver Screen.”
Eve Sicular
By Eve Sicular
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Kon, who also composed the score for the restored film ‘Al Khet,’ infused Hasidic melodies with modernist expressionism
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