This is fascinating. It provides a window into a culture that is largely inaccessible to us today. Also, it's amazing that, at the same time Hollywood was producing huge celebrations of 20th-century American culture, people who might well have been their cousins were creating provincial yet timeless morality tales in a language only they spoke. I feel as though I've learned something about Jewish immigrant culture a century ago that would not be possible from books, alone or by friendship with their fully-assimilated grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And that Moses? A real macher! Thank you!
This is wonderful - I love Yiddish films. Those with Maurice Schwartz and Moishe Oyshe have such great music - and both those cantors were good actors as well as magnificent singers.
עס איז אינטערסאנט צו זעהן ווי אידן אין די דרייסיגער יארן האבן זיך געמוטשעט צו לעבן געצויגן פון ביידע זייטן. ווי שטארק עס האט געצויגן די מאדערנע לעבן האט נאך אלס די יודשע קולטור שטארק געשלעפט. ביידע קען מען נישט האבן. די רבי זיע איז גערעכט געווען.
What a great find! Thank you for posting.
This is fascinating. It provides a window into a culture that is largely inaccessible to us today. Also, it's amazing that, at the same time Hollywood was producing huge celebrations of 20th-century American culture, people who might well have been their cousins were creating provincial yet timeless morality tales in a language only they spoke. I feel as though I've learned something about Jewish immigrant culture a century ago that would not be possible from books, alone or by friendship with their fully-assimilated grandchildren and great-grandchildren. And that Moses? A real macher! Thank you!
This is wonderful - I love Yiddish films. Those with Maurice Schwartz and Moishe Oyshe have such great music - and both those cantors were good actors as well as magnificent singers.
Thank you.
Thank you for putting this one on - interesting film...
Thanks! You just saved me about $30 to see this at a retrospective.
????? You know you could watched any black and white films on youtube, right?
Although perhaps in a restored version - this one looks taken from a VHS tape...
OMG--Wagner's music for a Yiddish film!
זייער א שיינע מעשה אבער די מוסר השכל האט ער נישט געפאלגט דער דרייט זיך מיט פרויען אין נאכדעם זאגט ער א מענטש גייט אין קבר🔝🔯
עס איז אינטערסאנט צו זעהן ווי אידן אין די דרייסיגער יארן האבן זיך געמוטשעט צו לעבן געצויגן פון ביידע זייטן. ווי שטארק עס האט געצויגן די מאדערנע לעבן האט נאך אלס די יודשע קולטור שטארק געשלעפט. ביידע קען מען נישט האבן. די רבי זיע איז גערעכט געווען.