A Yiddish-language poster for East Side Sadie, directed by Sidney M. Goldin, 1929.
Yiddish cinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא; trans. Idish-Sprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry which produced some 130 full-length motion pictures and 30 shorts during its heyday from 1911 and 1940. Yiddish film almost disappeared after World War II, due to the Holocaust and the linguistic acculturation of Jewish immigrants, though new pictures are still made sporadically.
Yiddishcinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא; trans. Idish-Sprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry which...
see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit...
Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
The National Center of Jewish Cinema has praised Green Fields, saying the film "heralded the Golden Age of Yiddishcinema." She next starred in The Light...
Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community....
renovated into Village East Cinema, reopening in 1991. Angelika rebranded the theater in 2021. Village East, originally the Yiddish Art Theatre, is at the...
2021. Hoberman, J. (July 28, 2017). "Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, YiddishCinema Makes a Comeback". The New York Times. Archived from the original on...
Greatest Jewish Movies. Almonds and Raisins, the documentary about Yiddishcinema from 1927-1940 featured on this list, at IMDb Davidoff on Bernheimer...
Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...
Joseph in the Land of Egypt (Yiddish title: Yoysef in Mitsraim) is a 1932 American historical drama film directed by George Roland and starring Joseph...
German expressionist cinema was a part of several related creative movements in Germany in the early 20th century that reached a peak in Berlin during...
Marek and Malgorzata (1996). "YiddishCinema in Europe," in Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (ed.), The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press...
New York City. Built in 1888, it served as a German language theatre, a Yiddish theatre, a burlesque house, a union meeting hall, a legitimate theatre...
The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish...
dozen Yiddish theatre groups existed in New York City alone, in the Yiddish Theater District, performing original plays, musicals, and Yiddish translations...
The Yiddish Theatre District, also called the Jewish Rialto and the Yiddish Realto, was the center of New York City's Yiddish theatre scene in the early...
Festival. The film takes place in Philadelphia and will be shot in English, Yiddish, Hungarian and Italian. Director of photography Lol Crawley, editor Dávid...
best known for his work in the Yiddish theatre. Lumet was born in Warsaw, then part of Congress Poland, to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family. He immigrated...
Yidl Mitn Fidl (Yiddish: אידל מיטן פֿידל, "Yiddle With His Fiddle", Polish: Judeł gra na skrzypcach), is a 1936 musical Yiddish film. Arye and his daughter...
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