Yiddish cinema (Yiddish: יידישע קינא, יידיש-שפראכיגע קינא; trans. Idish-Sprakhige Kino, Idishe Kino) refers to the Yiddish language film industry which...
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see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Hebrew letters. Yiddish (ייִדיש, יידיש or אידיש, yidish or idish, pronounced [ˈ(j)ɪdɪʃ], lit...
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Anti-Yiddish sentiment is a negative attitude towards Yiddish. Opposition to Yiddish may be motivated by antisemitism. Jewish opposition to Yiddish has...
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Yiddish dialects are varieties of the Yiddish language and are divided according to the region in Europe where each developed its distinctiveness. Linguistically...
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Yiddish theatre consists of plays written and performed primarily by Jews in Yiddish, the language of the Central European Ashkenazi Jewish community....
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Helen Beverley (category Yiddish theatre performers)
The National Center of Jewish Cinema has praised Green Fields, saying the film "heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema." She next starred in The Light...
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2021. Hoberman, J. (July 28, 2017). "Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback". The New York Times. Archived from the original on...
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Anna Appel (actress) (category Yiddish theatre performers)
the Yiddish language. She was active in New York City for over 50 years in Yiddish theatre (in the Yiddish Theatre District), and Yiddish cinema. Anna...
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Joseph in the Land of Egypt (category Yiddish-language films)
more films in Poland, all of which were considered highlights of the Yiddish cinema. Gevinson, Alan, ed. (1997). Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American...
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Yiddish literature encompasses all those belles-lettres written in Yiddish, the language of Ashkenazic Jewry which is related to Middle High German. The...
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Village East by Angelika (redirect from Yiddish Art Theater (building))
renovated into Village East Cinema, reopening in 1991. Angelika rebranded the theater in 2021. Village East, originally the Yiddish Art Theatre, is at the...
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Mirele Efros (category Yiddish plays)
Marek and Malgorzata (1996). "Yiddish Cinema in Europe," in Geoffrey Nowell-Smith (ed.), The Oxford History of World Cinema. Oxford: Oxford University Press...
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The 50 Greatest Jewish Movies (category Jewish cinema)
Greatest Jewish Movies. Almonds and Raisins, the documentary about Yiddish cinema from 1927-1940 featured on this list, at IMDb Davidoff on Bernheimer...
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Jewish Autonomous Oblast (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
oblast' (YeAO), IPA: [jɪˈvrʲejskəjə ɐftɐˈnomnəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ (je a ˈo)]; Yiddish: ייִדישע אװטאָנאָמע געגנט, romanized: Yidishe avtonome gegnt, [ˈjɪdɪʃə...
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venue that screened Yiddish films and served as a vaudeville hall. The venue's name was changed to the Hollywood in the 1932. The cinema first started showing...
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The Dybbuk (film) (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
The Dybbuk (Yiddish: דער דיבוק, Der Dibuk; Polish: Dybuk) is a 1937 Yiddish-language Polish fantasy drama directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on...
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The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as the history of cinematography, and it has universally recognized achievements, even though Polish...
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Sidney M. Goldin (category Yiddish-language film directors)
director as well as a prominent writer, actor and producer for Yiddish theater and Yiddish cinema during the early 20th century. During his career, he worked...
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Green Fields (film) (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
Green Fields (Yiddish: גרינע פֿעלדער, trans. Grine Felder) is a 1937 American comedy-drama Yiddish film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami. The...
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The Yiddish Art Theatre was a Yiddish theatre company of the 20th century in New York City. The organization was founded in 1918 by actor and impresario...
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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...
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Yiddle With His Fiddle (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
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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Jewish culture (redirect from Jewish cinema)
dozen Yiddish theatre groups existed in New York City alone, in the Yiddish Theater District, performing original plays, musicals, and Yiddish translations...
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Mamele (category Articles containing Yiddish-language text)
Mamele (Yiddish: מאמאלע Polish: Mateczka) is a Yiddish Language Polish musical film made in 1938. Set in Łódź, the film revolves around Khavtshi Samet...
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but Jewish culture began to be found in non-Jewish characters, such as Yiddish being used by Native Americans in Cat Ballou, and by a black cabbie, portrayed...
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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...
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The Brutalist (category Yiddish-language films)
Festival. The film takes place in Philadelphia and will be shot in English, Yiddish, Hungarian and Italian. Director of photography Lol Crawley, editor Dávid...
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Irving Place Theatre (redirect from Yiddish Art Theatre (Irving Place))
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...
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Tevya (film) (category Yiddish-language films)
Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds by J Hobermann. New York, 1991, ISBN 9781584658702. p.53-54. Laughter Through Tears: The Yiddish Cinema by Judith...
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Baruch Lumet (category Yiddish theatre performers)
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...
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