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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Though no recordings were made of the 'Yinglish Mikado,' traces of it remain
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Edgar Ulmer, the prolific and peripatetic film director, best known for his 1945 noir, “Detour,” spent much of his career as an exile — first from Europe and then from Hollywood. He directed Yiddish classics, such as “American Matchmaker” and “Green Fields.” In the early part of his career, he worked with F.W. Murnau, Billy…
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