About me
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 Esther Shub, Ideology & Montage; and her ingeveb exegesis Samy Szlingerbaum’s Heymish Avant-Garde Kino der Mamen: Mysteries, Music, & Immigrant Life in “Brussels Transit.” In 2023 she produced her eighth album — Yiddish Silver Screen a.k.a. “zilberner kino” — to celebrate both Isle of Klezbos’ 25th anniversary and her own myriad adaptations of music heard on vintage Yiddish soundtracks. An erstwhile Curator of YIVO Film and Photo Archives, she also worked on the landmark MoMA retrospective "Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds." Her
latest published research explores the Yinglish Mikado of Danny Kaye, Jerome Robbins and Judy Garland, from Tamiment Playhouse to Hollywood. In her musician life as drummer and leader for both Isle of Klezbos & Metropolitan Klezmer ensembles, Eve has toured from Vienna to Vancouver as well as collaborating with artists from Jill Sobule to Scissor Sisters. For Eve’s musical documentary theater piece “J.Edgar Klezmer: Songs from My Grandmother's FBI Files” (acclaimed by The New York Times) she was composer, lyricist, playwright & real-life grandchild onstage.
