The Yiddish Cinema Movie Review 1991

Utilizes interviews, archival photographs, and film clips to describe the flourishing Yiddish film production in Eastern Europe and the United States between the two world wars. The film also explains the decline of the cinema and the language because of the Holocaust's decimation of European Jewry, the Stalinist suppression of the culture, and the demands for assimilation in the new world.

Distribution

National Center for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, Lown Bldg. 102 MS 053, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, Phone: (781)899-7044, Fax: (781)736-2070, Email: ncjf@logos.cc.brandeis.edu, URL: http://www.jewishfilm.org

Available on VHS
Running time 60 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary Films, Film History, Judaism

Director

Rich Pontius

Other

David Mamet