THE JCCWM YIDDISH FILM SERIES CONTINUES WITH:

 

Thursday, March 20      Tevye

USA, 1939, 96 minutes, B&W
Cast: Maurice Schwartz, Rebecca Weintraub, Miriam Riselle, Leon Leibgol

Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave, Tevye the Dairyman’s daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. Her courtship and marriage pit Tevye’s love for his daughter against his deep-seated faith and loyalty to tradition. The clash between tradition and modernity, parental authority and love, customs and enlightenment are foreshadowed by the antisemitism of the rural community. Tevye's world is a microcosm of the larger world of Russian Jewry in the early 1900s.

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Wednesday, April 30     The Singing Blacksmith  Yankl Der Schmid

USA 1938 105 minutes Starring Moishe Oysher, Miriam Riselle, Florence Weiss, Anna Appel,
Herschel Bernardi, Michael Goldstein and Max Vodnoy

Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer’s musical version of David Pinski’s play Yankl der Shmid. Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmer’s lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing.

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Wednesday, May 14    American Matchmaker Amerikaner Shadkhn

USA 1940 87 minutes
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as “the Yiddish Fred Astaire,” plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. Edgar G. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. With its urbane, neurotic hero, American Matchmaker looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen.

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FOR EACH FILM: Cost: $15 in advance,

$18 at the door

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                                     Manalapan, NJ 07726

 

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