The Kulturfest calendar is happily overflowing with opportunities to enjoy Yiddish-language film. Not surprisingly, there are numerous documentary bows to the dear departed Yiddish theater of Second ...

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In 1950, the great actor, producer and Yiddish theater impresario Maurice Schwartz closed down his Yiddish Art Theater in New York. Demand for Yiddish theater had waned. That same year, what were ...

Technologies come and go in the film world, but rarely whole cultures. That’s one reason why movies in Yiddish prove so fascinating. They are fundamentally different from other objects of bygone days.

Lucy Gherman had a long and winding career in Yiddish theater but it was likely her role as the long-suffering mother in the Yiddish film “A Brivele Der Mamen” (“A Letter to Mother”) that made her ...

“If you live long enough,” celebrated Yiddish-language novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote, “you see everything.” Even, as it turns out, the first-ever Blu-ray boxed set presenting a fascinating ...

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Jordan Hoffman, a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, is The Times of Israel's long-time film reviewer and the co-host of The Reel Schmooze. NEW YORK — Forget the Avengers, forget Godzilla.