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Explore little-known revelations surrounding a range of golden-age Yiddish movies and far beyond, featuring a fascinating array of cultural, scientific and political dimensions reflected and refracted onscreen. The origins of "Yidl mitn fidl" correspond not only to Molly Picon's earlier drag roles, but also to a mainstream Central European movie musical of the Weimar era. A lullaby sung (with his own lyrics) by Moishe Oysher was composed to melodically conflate with a 19th-century Polish opera aria. A dialect comedy song quotes Marxist credo in the charming character part played by a star of 2nd Avenue theater. Intriguing new perspectives for films both famous and obscure also focus on little-known production history and censorship sagas, from New York theater union makhers and mishpokhe, to Soviet censorship and post-Stalinist studio thaws.
Cinema historian/klezmer bandleader Eve Sicular (film) has written and lectured widely on Yiddish and early Russian filmmaking, including The Yiddish Celluloid Closet; Edgar Ulmer’s Canon of Cinema Contagion; her Harvard thesis on pioneering Soviet compilation director... Read More →
Sunday December 22, 2024 9:30am - 10:45am EST
506 - Hebrew Union College1 West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
