Yiddish clips.

Format:

Archive

Video

Contributor:

Robert and Molly Freedman Jewish Music Archive.

Language:

English

French

Yiddish

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, Yiddish.

Genre:

Short films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videocassette (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.

1/2 in.

monochrome

Place of Publication:

[United States] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1999]

Language Note:

In Yiddish with English and in parts French subtitles.

System Details:

VHS.

analog

magnetic

VHS

Summary:

Tape containing various clips from Yiddish movies like Dibuk, Grine Felder, The Vow, The Bar Mitzvah, and The Yiddish King Lear.

Contents:

Featured clips: 1. & 2. About the evil eye (Dibuk)

3. Dance of the paupers (Dibuk)

4. Dance of Death (Dibuk)

5. Marriage contract, engagement, custom of breaking plates

7. Shteln Bankes

8. Breaking tradition - women wanting education

9. Yiddish King Lear - women - submission

10. Woman desire to be a doctor

11. Badhunes chant

12. Badkhunes

13. Matchmaker two episodes - theatrical stereotype

14. Comedy - list of brides

15. Matchmaker

16. Miropole Rebbe, welcome kapelye, richman, pauper

17. Rosh khodesh bentshn

19. Scenes of Palestine from Yiddish King Lear ; departure for Petersburg to become a doctor

20. Parable of glass with silver back - with a little bit of silver all you see is yourself (Dibuk)

21. Love scene from Freylekhe kaptsunim - Biblical quotes

22. From Grine Felder - environmental issues / other worldly wanderer / knowledge and labor

23. American portrayed as fool

24. from The Bar Mitzvah - about language

25. Caberet song & dance

26. Tap dance

28. from the Yiddish King Lear / choice of husband / father takes umbrage

29. Issues dealing with assimilation and modernity

30. Modern scoffer

31. Bar mizva scene

32. Song & dance from The Vow

33. Aristocrat / band & players / responsibilities of the Bar Mitzva boy

34. Miropoler Rebbe

35. Leah at cemetery

36. Gematria

37. Mirpoler - mystical ancestors

38. Dos shnayderls tekhter

39. Zmiros from Yiddish King Lear / shoshas yaakov / Purim

40. Wanderer not knowing what he's looking for / shepherd pipes

41. Hoyf zinger from The Vow

42. Bar Mitzva - Zeyde and Bobe song & dance

43. Vocal sounds like Isa Kremer

44. Red Buttons - nigun

45. Yitzkhak Perlman with Kowalski (Last Klezmer in Poland)

46. Balagola / Yo Ferdele

47. Feyvish Finkle - melody to Ikh For Aheyn - Ikh vil a get

48. Feyvish Finkle - Ikh bin a border.

Notes:

Title and clip titles supplied by Freedman Archive.

No titles supplied for clips 6, 18, and 27.

Local Notes:

Freedman Archive Collection. Tape 39.

OCLC:

249582632