Tag Archives: Yiddish

The Singing Blacksmith
6.6

The Singing Blacksmith

Nov. 01, 1938

The Singing Blacksmith

Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmer’s musical version of David Pinski’s play Yankl ...
SHTTL
7.3

SHTTL

Oct. 19, 2023

SHTTL

The 1941 invasion of Soviet Ukraine by Nazi Germany is shown through the life of inhabitants of a Yiddish village at the border of Poland. ...
Bruriah
7.2

Bruriah

Release: Bruriah 2008 tt5701256 General: mkv | 450 MB | 01:28:38 Video: 472 Kbps | 720×416 (16:9) | 25.000 fps | AVC Audio 1: Vorbis at 224 ...
Eli Eli
6.6

Eli Eli

Sep. 27, 1940

Eli Eli

An elderly couple, Mendel and Hannah Shapiro, need to raise money to hang onto their farm and turn to their adult children for help. Release: Eli ...
Long Is the Road
7.5

Long Is the Road

Nov. 11, 1948

Long Is the Road

Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the ...
Mr. Kaplan
6.5

Mr. Kaplan

Nov. 21, 2014

Mr. Kaplan

Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War ...
Overture to Glory
6.9

Overture to Glory

Feb. 11, 1940

Overture to Glory

A humble cantor, Oysher yearns to be an opera singer. He deserts his tiny village to pursue his dream, but when his voice breaks he sheepishly ...
The Woman Racket
6.1

The Woman Racket

Jan. 24, 1930

The Woman Racket

During a raid on a speakeasy, a cop finds himself attracted to a pretty female employee. Instead of arresting her and taking her to jail, he not ...
The 81st Blow
7.7

The 81st Blow

Aug. 29, 1974

The 81st Blow

An historical document made up of footage and still shot by the Nazis. A compilation of testimony from witnesses who appeared at the Eichmann ...
Black Thursday
6.3

Black Thursday

Aug. 28, 1974

Black Thursday

Paris, July 1942. Paul, an idealist student, is warned of a vast roundup of Jews (the one that will remain under the name of “Vel ...
A Secret
6.8

A Secret

Oct. 03, 2007

A Secret

In 1953, a sensitive French boy finds out from a neighbor that his family’s Jewish. François Grimbert becomes a physician, and gradually ...
Motel the Operator
5.6

Motel the Operator

Jan. 15, 1940

Motel the Operator

Motel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by ...
The Light Ahead
6.6

The Light Ahead

Jun. 01, 1939

The Light Ahead

The Light Ahead is possibly the greatest of Edgar G. Ulmer’s shtetl films. Here, the director counterpoints his pastoral Green Fields to ...
Her Second Mother
0

Her Second Mother

Nov. 08, 1940

Her Second Mother

A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents’ kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, ...
American Matchmaker
5.9

American Matchmaker

Jan. 02, 1940

American Matchmaker

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he’s really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley’s ...
The Dybbuk
6.5

The Dybbuk

Sep. 29, 1937

The Dybbuk

In a Polish shtetl, two young men who have grown up together betrothe their unborn children, ignoring the advice of a mysterious traveler not to ...
Tevye
6.7

Tevye

Dec. 21, 1939

Tevye

Tevye is a dairyman in the Russian Ukraine early in the 20th century. He lives in a cabin outside Boyberik with his wife Goldie, his widowed ...
Three Daughters
0

Three Daughters

Jan. 01, 1949

Three Daughters

A 1949 film. Release: Three Daugthers 1949 480p BluRay AAC x264-HANDJOB General: mkv | 1.46 GB | 01:27:19 Video: 2270 Kbps | 666×480 ...
Yiddle with His Fiddle
6.3

Yiddle with His Fiddle

Sep. 29, 1936

Yiddle with His Fiddle

A young woman posing as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland Release: Yiddle With His Fiddle (1936) General: mkv | 1.23 GB | 01:28:12 ...
Green Fields
6.5

Green Fields

Jan. 01, 1937

Green Fields

Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic ...