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Seven young people tell their personal stories with the Yiddish language while discussing the life and work of avant-garde Yiddish poets.
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Yiddish Connection
Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.
Yiddish Aroma
To some, Yiddish is a dead culture, but an increasing number of people feel that the richness of its heritage is something to be preserved. The film presents these dilemmas on the rehearsal stage of the Yiddish spiel The
My Yiddish Papi
A young woman decides not to answer a phone call from her grandfather, unaware that it will be his last. When he dies, she is overwhelmed with guilt and regret and can’t sleep. But then she remembers a promise made long
God Speaks Yiddish
Forty years after leaving his ultra-Orthodox roots, journalist Tuvia Tenenbom returns to Jerusalem's Mea Shearim. With rare access, he uncovers a world that remains a mystery to outsiders.
The Parrot Speaking Yiddish
About amusing adventures of the young blunderer Yankel during World War II who survives thanks to the sluggishness. The hired legionary he is taken prisoner, will pass across Sicily with the army of allies and it will ap
Odessa La Yiddish
Odesa and its jewish soul. Iosif Jerebker and Taisiya Zborovskaya are probably the last yiddish singers of Odesa. Accompanied by Anna Rozen on piano, they took us some decades ago, in an old jewish mansion, into this fab
A Yiddish World Remembered
Elliott Gould narrates this affectionate look at life in the shtetls of Eastern Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. "It's unreal that all this could have just disappeared," says Polish native Mariem Adler Stok,
The Yiddish Cinema
Narrated by prolific writer and director David Mamet, this film is a perfect introduction to Yiddish cinema. The Yiddish Cinema traces the history of the genre through interviews, archival photographs, and film clips of
Yiddish Mean Girls
What if the "Plastics" were Jewish? An iconic four-way phone call scene from Mean Girls reimagined in Yiddish.
The Great Yiddish Love
Set in Berlin and New York's Lower East Side, The Great Yiddish Love stars the self-exiled Marlene Dietrich and her Nazi-endorsed replacement, Zarah Leander. It is a melodrama of love, emigration, and betrayal reassemble
The Yiddish King Lear
Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.
Helsinki Yiddish Cabaret
A group of musicians from New York, Berlin and Helsinki performs Yiddish revue songs by Helsinki-born Jac Weinstein (1883-1976). The songs offer a fascinating glimpse into the history of Helsinki’s Jewish community. The
Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish
The play Romeo and Juliet has been translated around the world. Now Eve Annenberg’s gritty, funny feature film sets William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in contemporary New York City with Brooklyn-inflected English and
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story
This heart warming story of one unique woman's struggle portrays the fight of both an old art form to stay relevant and an old actress to find meaning and a stage in a society that worships youth. Shot in real time in on
It Sounds Better In Yiddish
This comprehensive documentary on Yiddish comedy duo Shimon Dzigan and Israel Shumacher combines their biographies with a look at the changing status of Yiddish culture in Israel. Featuring rare footage, film clips, and
Yiddish: A Tale of Survival
"Yiddish: a tale of survival" is a feature-length documentary about the resilience and survival of Yiddish language and culture since the Holocaust. The grassroots efforts to maintain the viability of Yiddish is captured
How to Break Into Yiddish Vaudeville
How does an Episcopal kid from Kansas become a Yiddish Vaudeville performer? Shane Baker shares his story in this humourous animated short.
Yiddish Words I Grew Up Hearing
A filmmaker tries to define words that she remembers her parents using.
When some of Joniskis was wrapped in Yiddish sounds…
The footage of the film shows Joniškis, Kriukai and Žagarė, places of large Jewish communities before the war. The locals remember the Jews, and tell about the tragedy that befell them during the years of fascist German