Highly anticipated Yiddish New York festival will be online and on-site
Among the events: the screening of a classic film about two disabled lovers and a lecture about Palestinian Yiddish
Among the events: the screening of a classic film about two disabled lovers and a lecture about Palestinian Yiddish
Film Forum is presenting ‘Uncle Moses,’ ‘Hester Street’ and ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ as part of its series on New York City
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. The first words in the trailer for the new Yiddish-language film “The Pin” are “Ikh ken nit khapn dem otem” — “I can’t catch my breath.” The movie, currently playing in New York, takes place primarily in a barn in an unknown location during the Second…
Naomi Jaye does not speak a word of Yiddish, but that is not stopping her from making the first contemporary Yiddish-language feature film in Canada, and only the second in North America. The 38-year old writer, director and producer is busy with pre-production on “The Pin,” which will begin filming in March 2012 in Toronto…
A version of this post appeared in Yiddish here. Three short Yiddish films created by students at the Ma’aleh School of Television, Film and the Arts, an Orthodox film school in Jerusalem, have recently become available for rental on the Internet, sparking interest from fans of Yiddish cinema worldwide. Many of the Ma’aleh students’ films…
Courtesy of Eve Annenberg Eve Annenberg has finally hit the big time. After experiencing initial difficulties getting “Romeo & Juliet in Yiddish,” shown at Jewish Film Festivals (difficulties owing, in part, to a scene in the film with nudity), the movie premiered in January at the New York Jewish Film Festival, and receives a theatrical…
Courtesy of Riverside Films “He wrote standing up… Standing, walking, running.” So Bel Kaufman, granddaughter of Sholem Aleichem, describes the world’s most influential Yiddish writer. “He would look off into the distance and chuckle, as if hearing what his characters were saying to him, and then he would write.” Joseph Dorman’s new documentary, “Sholem Aleichem:…
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