Jiddisch wird u.a. in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA), Russland, Vereinigtes Königreich (UK), Deutschland, Israel, Kanada, Australien, Ukraine, Moldawien / Republik Moldau und Frankreich gesprochen und 28 Filme (zwischen 1911 und 2019) mit dieser Sprache wurden bislang erfasst. Die meisten dieser Filme wurden in Polen (15) gedreht. Besonders beliebte Genres für Jiddisch Filme sind Drama (11), Komödie (6) und Musik (2). Zu den bekanntesten & erfolgreichsten Filmen zählen Kol Nidre (1939), Children Must Laugh (1936), In Our Synagogue (2019), Jolly Paupers (1937) und The Great Advisor (1940).
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.
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 old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and sets himself up with a new name and new business, Nat Gold, Advisor in Human Relations...
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
One of the few surviving documentaries about Jewish life in Poland before World War II, this film was produced to raise funds for the Vladimir Medem Sanitarium, an institution that stood as the embodiment of health and enlightenment, in striking contrast to the grim images of urban Polish-Jewish poverty.
Seit dem Tod seiner Frau kämpft Menashe (Menashe Lustig) darum, dass er seinen Sohn Rieven zu sich nehmen und für ihn sorgen darf. Doch in der orthodoxen jüdischen Gemeinde der Chassidim im Südwesten Brooklyns ist das Leben klar reglementiert. Einen alleinerziehenden Vater gibt es nach strenger Auslegung der Thora nicht, das Konzept verstösst damit gegen die chassidische Tradition. Menashe, der als Angestellter in einem kleinen Supermarkt im Viertel arbeitet und dort unter der Knute seines herrischen Chefs ist, tut alles, um mehr Zeit mit Rieven verbringen zu können. Dieser wohnt bei seiner Schwester und wird von seinem Schwager Eizik erzogen. Ausgerechnet von Eizik, der nicht viel von Menashe hält und ihn das auch immer wieder spüren lässt.
A young woman tries to repay her adoptive parents' kindness by shielding their biological child, who has gotten involved with an embezzler, from the police.
A boy tries to find out what happened in the old local synagogue. Obsessed, he is chasing something he never saw and does not pay any attention to what is happening around him. Inspired by Franz Kafkas unfinished novel.
This 1919 silent is the first American film based on the same Sholem Aleichem stories as Fiddler on the Roof, but produced 50 years before the blockbuster musical. Unlike most adaptations of Aleichem’s work, Broken Barriers (Khavah) focuses not on Tevye the milkman, but on his daughter Khavah, who falls in love with the gentile boy Fedka and must navigate the reverberations from this with both her community and her family.
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A radio host tries to give personal advice to his listeners. Only he is unable to take care of himself in life.
Make sure there's a hanky nearby: After the death of their mother, older sister Betty works tirelessly, supporting her sister through nursing school and her fiancée through medical school only to see her happiness shattered when her sister and fiancée fall in love.
Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to the 1937 classic, The Dybbuk, featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows.
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 returns, resigned to attending but not singing at the Yom Kippur services. Upon his return, Oysher is informed that his son has died. Out of grief is wrought a miracle: Oysher's voice returns, more powerful than ever. After performing the Day of Atonement services, Oysher suddenly collapses, peacefully joining his son in death. If you wish to see the touching Overture to Glory, by all means seek out a decent print; many extant copies are so washed out that, not only are the English subtitles unreadable, but it's extremely difficult to tell one actor from another.
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
Adaptation of the Jacob Gordin play.
The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin.
Famous for their role as young lovers two years previous in The Dybbuk, Polish husband-and-wife team Leon Liebgold and Lili Liliana are reunited as stars in Kol Nidre, a surprising mashup of romance, melodrama, comedy, and musical. The film tells the story of a girl (Liliana) who is torn between two lovers, using this premise to comment on the expectations surrounding gender, marriage, and the family in a time of generational uproar.
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski (Avrom Yitskhok Kaminsky)
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
In this musical comedy, the comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. Thus begins a comedy of errors, including millionaire investors, American schemers, and insane asylums, with a little matchmaking on the side.
Directed by Andrzej Marek.
Two friends make a sacred pact pledging their newborn children, Rachel and Mendel, in marriage. Based on the same legend as S. Ansky's classic play The Dybbuk, this spirited film offers the divine intervention of Elijah and a happy ending.
Mamele embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz--tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, religious Jews celebrating sukkot--but the film belongs to Molly Picon who romps undaunted through her dutiful daughter role saving siblings, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age.
Samy Szlingerbaum made his film Dakh-Brisel (Brussels-Transit) in 1980, thirty years after any Yiddish feature film had been produced. Szlingerbaum felt that the only way he could relate the story of his family’s search for refuge after World War II was in Yiddish. This Belgian-based filmmaker, deeply impacted by New York experimental cinema, gives us a masterful blend of powerful drama and stark documentary to tell the story of postwar European Jewry. Home, as it had been, no longer exists, and all that Samy’s family wants is a place in which to sink new roots.
Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss.