A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Informed by Jewish folklore and the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film carries a mythic poetic quality
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Yiddish World Conference to promote the study of Eastern European Jewry in Ukraine
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Yiddish World The church preacher who gave sermons in Yiddish
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