Zoll Zeyn Movie Review 1989

Documents the current status of Yiddish culture in Israel after the suppression of the language by early Zionists who chose modern Hebrew to signify the new nation. Also provides an insight into the language's history as the mother tongue of millions of pre-WWII East Europeans. In Yiddish with English subtitles.

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 135 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary Films, Judaism

Director

Henryk M. Broder, Frans van der Meulen