The Jewish Soul : : ten Classics of Yiddish Cinema

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On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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Originally released as motion pictures from 1935-1950.
Full screen (1.33:1)
Special features (Disc 1): The Dybbuk commentary by J. Hoberman; restored 123-minute version and alternate 99-minute version of The Dybbuk.
Special features (Disc 2): American Matchmaker commentary by Eve Sicular; Original subtitled version of American Matchmaker; Overture to Glory commentary by Allen Lewis Rickman
Special features (Disc 3): Tevya commentary by Allen Lewis Rickman.
Special features (Disc 4): The Second Mother commentary by Allen Lewis Rickman; Original subtitled version of The Second Mother;
Special features (Disc 5): Original subtitled version of Eli Eli;
Booklet contains credits, Foreword by Serge Bromberg, and essays "On Yiddish and Cinema" by Allen Lewis Rickman and "The Jewish Soul" by Samuel Blumenfeld.
Disc 1. The Dybbuk / directed by Michal Waszynski (1937 : 123 min.) -- Mir Kumen On = Children Must Laugh / directed by Aleksander Ford (1935 : 61 min.)
Disc 2. American Matchmaker / directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (1940 : 85 min.) -- Overture to glory / directed by Max Nosseck (1940 : 82 min.)
Disc 3. Tevya / directed by Maurice Schwartz (1939 : 92 min.) -- The Yiddish King Lear / directed by Harry Thomashefsky (1935 : 84 min.)
Disc 4. Her second mother / directed by Joseph Seiden (1940 : 84 min.) -- Motel the operator / directed by Joseph Seiden (1939 : 87 min.)
Disc 5. Eli Eli / directed by Joseph Seiden (1940 : 88 min.) -- Three daughters / directed by Joseph Seiden (1950 : 87 min.).
The Dybbuk: Abram Morewski, Ajzyk Samberg, Mojzesz Lipman, Lili Liliana, Leon Liebgold.
Mir Kumen On: narrator, A.L. Alexander ; introductory speaker, David Dubinsky, B Charney Vladeck.
American Matchmaker: Leo Fuchs.
Overture to Glory: Moyshe Oysher, Florence Weiss, Maurice Krohner, John Mylong, Helen Beverly, Baby Winkler.
Tevya: Maurice Schwarz, Miriam Riselle, Rebecca Weintraub, Paula Lubelski, Leon Liebgold.
The Yiddish King Lear: Esther Adler, Jacob Bergreen, Miriam Grossman, Maurice Krohner.
Her Second Mother: Esta Salzman, Max Badin, Rose Greenfield, Margaret Schoenfeld.
Motel the Operator: Chaim Tauber, Seymour Rechzeit, Yetta Zwerling, Jacob Zanger, Maurice Krohner.
Eli Eli: Esther Field, Lazar Freed.
Three Daughters: Charlotte Goldstein, Michael Rosenberg, Esta Salzman, Sacha Shaw, Rebecca Weintraub, Max Wilner.
"During their 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.
Blu-ray; 1080p high-definition; region A; LPCM stereo; requires Blu-ray player.

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