Container of (work): Dybbuk (Motion picture) Container of (work): Mir kumen on (Motion picture) Container of (work): American matchmaker (Motion picture) Container of (work): Overture to glory (Motion picture) Container of (work): Tevya (Motion picture) Container of (work): The Yiddish King Lear (Motion picture) Container of (work): Her second mother (Motion picture) Container of (work): Motel the operator (Motion picture) Container of (work): Eli Eli (Motion picture) Container of (work): Three daughters (Motion picture)
Notes:
Title from container. Chaim Tauber, Yetta Zwerling, Rose Greenfield, Esta Salzman, Michael Rosenberg, Rebecca Weintraub, Max Wilner, Max Badin, Esther Field, Avrom Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, A. L. Alexander, David Dubinsky.
Contents:
The Dybbuk / directed by Michael Waszynski (1937 : 123 min.) -- Mir Kumen On / directed by Aleksander Ford (1935 : 61 min.) -- American Matchmaker / directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (1940 : 85 min.) -- Overture to glory / directed by Max Nosseck (1940 : 82 min.) -- Tevya / directed by Maurice Schwartz (1939 : 92 min.) -- The Yiddish King Lear / directed by Harry Thomashefsky (1935 : 84 min.) -- Her second mother / directed by Joseph Seiden (1940 : 84 min.) -- Motel the operator / directed by Joseph Seiden (1939 : 87 min.) -- Eli Eli / directed by Joseph Seiden (1940 : 88 min.) -- Three daughters / directed by Joseph Seiden (1950 : 87 min.)
Summary:
"During its heyday in the late 1930s, Yiddish movies covered a broad range of genres: comedies, soap operas, the supernatural, literary adaptations, musicals, and Lubitsch-style romances. Unified through language, gesture, and a common cultural sensibility, they captured the essence of the Jewish soul. [...] This five-disc set captures the diversity of Yiddish film." --Back cover. Special Features: The Dybbuk audio commentary by J. Hoberman and alternate 99 min. version -- American Matchmaker audio commentary by Eve Sicular and alternate version with 1940 subtitles -- Overature to glory audio commentary by Allen Lewish Rickman -- Tevya audio commentary by Allen Lewis Rickman -- Her second mother audio commentary by Allen Lewis Rickman and alternate version with 1940 subtitles -- Eli Eli alternate version with 1940 subtitles -- Printed booklet including essays by journalists and historian Samuel Blumenfeld, film preservationist Serge Bromberg and Yiddish cultural historian Allen Lewis Rickman.
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