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Advice and Dissent
USA, 2002, 21 minutes, color
Directed By Leib Cohen
35mm DVD VHS
A frustrated businessman, Jeffery Goldman (John Pankow) tries to end his hopeless marriage by asking his local Rabbi (Eli Wallach) to place a curse on his wife. What happens next sets in motion a chain of unexpected events. Also starring Rebecca Pidgeon. More

The Affair Blum (Affaire Blum)
East Germany, 1948, 109 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Erich Engel

16mm
This early postwar suspense story, based on a well-known 1926 murder trial with Dreyfus-like overtones represents an East German reflection on Nazism. More

Ambulance (Ambulans)
Poland, 1962, 15 minutes, B&W
Music only- no narration/dialogue.
Directed by Janusz Morgenstern

16mm DVD
In this haunting short film, a group of Jewish children and their teacher are herded into ambulance (or so it appears) by Nazis. A powerful trigger for discussion, the film draws parallels to the real life fate of Janusz Korczak who died with his students at Treblinka. More


American Matchmaker (Amerikaner Shadkhn)
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USA, 1940, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer

35mm 16mm DVD
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. Ulmer’s last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. More

Amy
USA, 1997, 8 minutes, color
Directed by Susan Rivo
DVD
A poignant and hilarious personal narrative about the filmmaker’s lifelong attachment and deep bond with a stuffed animal received at birth. More

As If Nothing Happened (Ke'Ilu Klum Lo Kara)
Israel, 1999, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD

Based on the personal experience of the director, this award-winning feature film focuses on one family waiting to hear news of a son who may have been involved in a terrorist incident. More

At the End of the Day
Israel, 2000, 50 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Ayelet Bargur
DVD

Four young men, all commanders in the same Israeli Defense Force Golan Heights paratrooper unit, were killed over a 22-month period from 1995 to 1997. Their families, realizing they all suffer a common fate, agree to meet and share their stories. Mor

Aya: An Imagined Autobiography (Autobiographia Dimionit)
Israel, 1994, 87 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Director Michal Bet-Adam, stars in the title role as a woman driven by her father’s ambitions for her. Now she is shooting a film and fragments of dreams and fantasy alternate with reality. More

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Bar Mitzvah
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USA, 1935, 75 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn

DVD
Starring Yiddish theater superstar Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance, this musical melodrama is a masterwork of shund, the bread and butter of the Yiddish theater. More

The Bells
USA, 1926, 85 minutes, B&W, Silent with English intertitles
Directed by James Young

16mm
Lionel Barrymore stars as an Alsatian innkeeper whose political ambitions drive him to commit brutal murder in this silent melodrama. The Bells is an example of one way in which Jews have been stereotyped in theater and cinema. More

Benjamin and the Miracle of Chanukah
USA, 1978, 30 minutes, color, animated
Directed by Robert Mitchell

16mm
This animated film featuring the voice of Herschel Bernardi traces the story of Chanukah through the fictional story of a young boy and his faithful donkey. More

The Benny Zinger Show
Israel, 1993, 37 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Arnon Goldfinger

DVD
Benny Zinger presents slide shows at weddings until one day, while preparing a show for a couple, he falls in love with the bride. More

The Bent Tree
USA, 1980, 8 minutes, Animated
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sally Heckel

16mm
An animated fable based on Itzik Manger's folk tune. More

Benya Krik
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USSR, 1926, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by V. Vilner
35mm DVD
The seamy Jewish underworld of Odessa is the setting for Isaac Babel's story based on the life of gangster king Mishka Yaponchik "Mike the Jap" Vinnitsky. Murder is a way of life for Benya and his gang until he finds himself ensnared in a Bolshevik trap. Mor

Biloxi Blues
USA, 1988, 106 minutes, color
Directed by Mike Nichols
16mm
Mike Nichols’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play, starring Matthew Broderick. Mor

Blind Man's Bluff (Golem Ba'Maagal)
Israel, 1993, 93 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Aner Preminger
35mm DVD
In this award-winning feature film based on a novel by Lilly Perry Amitai. Trying to distance herself from her Holocaust survivor parents and ex-boyfriend, pianist Micki Stav moves out of her parents' house in search of her own identity. More

Braids (Tzamot)
Israel, 1989, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Yitzhak Halutzi
16mm DVD
Based on a true story, Braids tells the tale of So'ad, a 14-year-old Jewish girl imprisoned by the Iraqi government in 1947 for her participation in the Zionist movement. More

Breaking Home Ties
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USA, 1922, 78 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Frank N. Seltzer & George K. Rowlands
DCP DVD Blu-ray
Long thought lost, the world's only existing print of Breaking Home Ties was discovered by NCJF in a Berlin archive in 1984. Thinking he killed his friend Paul in a blind rage, David Bergmann flees pre-revolutionary Russia for America. In New York he becomes a succesful lawyer and woos the boss' daughter Rose. More

Brighton Beach Memoirs
USA, 1986, 110 minutes, color
Directed by Gene Saks
16mm
Gene Saks’ adaptation of Neil Simon’s play in which a teenage Jewish boy recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. More

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Camera Obscura (La Camara Oscura)
Argentina, 2008, 86 minutes, color/B&W
Spanish and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed By María Victoria Menis

35mm DVD
A lyrical, inventive new film from award-winning, film festival favorite director María Victoria Menis. At the end of the 19th century, Gertrudis grows into her role as the ugly duckling in a colony of Argentinean Jews until she meets a nomadic photographer whose uncompromising vision allows her to see herself for the first time. More

A Cantor on Trial (Khazan afn Probe)
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USA, 1931, 10 min, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm 16mm DVD

Cantor Leibele Waldman plays multiple roles in this spoof of a synagogue committee in search of a chazan (cantor). More

The Cantor's Son (Dem Khazns Zundl)
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USA, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ilya Motyleff (Sidney Goldin, uncredited)

35mm DVD
This "anti-Jazz Singer” marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher who stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York's Lower East Side where he becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart. More

Catskill Honeymoon
USA, 1949, 93 minutes, B&W
English and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Directed by Josef Berne

16mm DVD
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' 50th wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show. Filmed on location at Young's Gap Hotel in Parksville, New York. More

Chariots of Fire
UK, 1981, 124 minutes, color
Directed by Hugh Hudson

16mm
The true story of two British track athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics. More

A Child of the Ghetto
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USA, 1910, 15 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by D. W. Griffith

16mm Blu-ray DVD
This tale of New York’s Lower East Side life captures the hustle and bustle of Rivington Street through the lens of legendary Hollywood director D. W. Griffith. Ruth flees the ghetto and hides in the country, where a young farmer takes her in and they fall in love. More

The Chosen
USA, 1982, 108 minutes, color
Directed by Jeremy Paul Kagan
16mm
Jeremy Kagan’s film adaptation of the classic novel by Chaim Potok. More

Chronicle of Love (Chronika Shel Ahava)
Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English Subtitles
Directed by Tzipi Trope
35mm DVD
In this the first Israeli feature film to deal with the subject of battered women. Nava, a social worker, shares the painful secret of her suffering with Jania, another woman victimized by her husband and the two form a healing bond. More

Cohen on the Telephone
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USA, 1929, 9 minutes, B&W
with sound, in English
Directed by Robert Ross

16mm Blu-ray DVD
Trying to make a call and unfamiliar with the telephone, Cohen embroils himself in a comic monologue of misunderstanding. Here, we see how the Jewish immigrant is now characterized not simply by how he moves and looks, but by how he speaks. More

Cohen Saves the Flag
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USA, 1913, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Mack Sennett
16mm DVD
Cohen is a sergeant in the Union Army and the bitter rival of another officer for the attentions of Rebecca. Like most burlesque Jewish characters of this period, this caricature borders on anti-semitism. Yet Cohen is also the hero of the film. More

Cohen's Advertising Scheme
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USA, 1904, 1 minute, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
This may be the earliest cinematic example of the Jewish stereotype known as the "scheming merchant”. Cohen, a grotesquely made-up Jewish shop owner, tricks a passerby into wearing a coat that has a sign advertising his store attached to the back. More

Cohen's Fire Sale
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USA, 1907, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Edwin S. Porter
16mm DVD
Cohen, made-up in grotesque vaudevillian Jewish style, pursues a trash wagon, picking up hats as they accidentally drop off. When he finds the hats are not selling, Cohen reads his insurance policy and arranges for an "accidental" fire." More

Comrade Abram (Tovarishch Abram)
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USSR, 1919, 18 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Razumni
35mm 16mm DVD
Tne of a series of short Bolshevik propaganda films, Comrade Abram focuses on Abram Hersh, a young Jewish pogrom survivor who became a factory worker and organizer in Moscow and, eventually, a leader in the Red Army. More

 The Cowboy
USA, 1968, 11 minutes, B&W
Yiddish (no subtitles)

Directed by Abe Wexler
16mm DVD
It's just your typical all-Yiddish shoot-'em-up. This hilarious spoof was made by adding a Yiddish dialogue to a 1932 Hollywood Western. More

Crossing Delancey
USA, 1988, 97 minutes, color
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
16mm
Based on Susan Sandler’s play, Crossing Delancey is a charming comedy about new world desires clashing with old world traditions. It’s a timeless tale of a woman struggling to find happiness and independence...her way. More

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The Day Grandpa Died
USA, 1970, 11 minutes, color
Produced by King Screen Productions
16mm
A child comes to accept death as a part of life. More

Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim Le America)
Israel, 2006, 86 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Hanan Peled

35mm DVD
In Tel Aviv in the 1960s 10-year-old Hilik knows his goal in life is to compensate for the grief his parents suffered in the Holocaust. More

Disraeli
USA, 1929, 89 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred E. Green
16mm
In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in Disraeli, Arliss scored his biggest box-office hit. More

The Dybbuk (Der Dibuk)
Poland, 1937, 123 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with complete new English subtitles
Directed by Michal Waszynski

Boundaries separating the natural from the supernatural dissolve as ill-fated pledges, unfulfilled passions, and untimely deaths ensnare two families in a tragic labyrinth of spiritual possession in this classic Yiddish feature film based on the celebrated play by S. Ansky. More

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East and West (Mizrekh un Mayrev/ Ost und West)
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Austria, 1923, 85 minutes, B&W
Silent with Yiddish & English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (1991)
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson
16mm DVD
Morris Brown, a New York gambler acquainted more with his checkbook than his prayer book, returns to Galicia with his very American daughter, Mollie (Molly Picon) for a family wedding. But Mollie, whose exuberant antics fill the film, unexpectedly meets her match—an engaging young yeshiva scholar who forsakes tradition and joins the secular world to win her heart. More

Enemies: A Love Story
USA, 1989, 119 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Mazursky
16mm
This film, based on the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer, deals with the lives of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, who find it difficult to abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur. More

Exodus
USA, 1960, 212 minutes, color
Directed by Otto Preminger
16mm
A classic film starring Paul Newman, about the foundation of the state of Israel. More

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Father's Footsteps (Comme Ton Pére)
France/Israel, 2007, 95 minutes, color
French & Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Marco Carmel

DVD
In the early 1970s, the Maimons, a rambunctious but tight knit Tunisian-Israeli family, settle in Paris seeking adventure and fortune. Israeli-French filmmaker Marco Carmel draws on events from his own childhood in this unusual coming of age story. Starring French celebrity actor/humorist Gad Elmaleh. More

The Feast of Passover (Di Seder Nakht)
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USA, 1931, 15 minutes, B&W
English, Hebrew, and Yiddish (no subtitles)
Produced by Sidney M. Goldin for Jacob Berkowitz
16mm DVD
A seder in the midst of North American prosperity recalls traditional Passover celebrations in Russia (with the same cast enacting both scenes). Then modernity returns with a knock at the door and a humorous twist. More

Fiddler on the Roof
USA, 1971, 181 minutes, color
Directed by Norman Jewison
16mm
The film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of shtetl life, his Jewish traditions, his family, and state-sanctioned pogroms. More

The Fifth Horseman is Fear (...a páty jezdec je Strach)
Czechoslovakia, 1964, 100 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Zbynek Brynych
16mm
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia a Jewish doctor, forbidden to practice, has to remove a bullet from a wounded Resistance fighter. He roams Prague streets in a desperate search for morphine while hiding his patient from the Nazis. More

The Front
USA, 1976, 94 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen plays a man of no real talent or strong political convictions who is paid to be a front for a group of black listed writers during the McCarthy period in the United States. More

Funny Girl
USA, 1968, 155 minutes, color
Directed by William Wyler
16mm
The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish slums of the Lower East Side, to the height of her career with the Ziegfeld Follies, including her marriage to and eventual divorce from her first husband, Nick Arnstein. More

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Gentleman's Agreement
USA, 1947, 118 minutes, B&W
Directed by Elia Kazan
16mm
A classic film in which a journalist who passes himself off as a Jew to write an article about Semitism in America, and discovers how racism affects people. More

The Giving Tree
USA, 1971, 10 minutes, color
From the story by Shel Silverstein
16mm
This animated short tells the story of the relationship between a little boy and the tree which lovingly and unstintingly provides for his needs at each stage of his life. More

God Does Not Believe in Us Anymore (An uns glaubt Gott nicht mehr)
Austria, 1982, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti

16mm DVD
The first film in Corti’s acclaimed epic trilogy, Where To and Back. After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, Ferry Tobler, a young Viennese Jew, flees to Prague and then Paris, lands in a French prison camp, and eventually escapes to Marseille. More

God, Man and Devil (Got, Mentsch, un Taybl)
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USA, 1949, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden

16mm DVD
Based on a play by Jacob Gordin, God, Man and Devil centers on a wager between God and Satan that has dire consequences. Beware, the film cautions, when money sounds sweeter than music. More

Green Fields (Grine Felder)
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USA, 1937, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and Jacob Ben-Ami
35mm 16mm DVD
Voted Best Foreign Film in France 1938. Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews,” he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in. More

Gripsholm
Germany, 2000, 102 minutes, color
German and Swedish with English subtitles
Directed by Xavier Koller
35mm DVD
Based on Kurt Tucholsky’s autobiographical novel about the decadent world of Berlin cabaret of the early 1930s. After writing inflammatory articles about the Nazis, Kurt (Ulrich Noethen), a German-Jewish publisher, travels to the Swedish palace of Gripsholm with his girlfriend Lydia and their friends. More

Gruber's Journey
Romania, 2008, 100 minutes, color
Romanian w/ English Subtitles
Directed by Radu Gabrea
35mm DigiBeta DVD
An Italian journalist suffering from debilitating allergies searches for a Jewish allergist named Gruber amid the outrageous, and increasingly sinister, bureaucracy of Nazi-occupied Romania. What begins as an absurdist wild goose chase leads directly to the heart of the final solution, and the disastrous fate of the local Jews. Radu Gabrea’s “Perfect yet subdued” film is Romania’s first drama about the Holocaust. More

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The Hangman
USA, 1964, 12 minutes, color
Directed by Paul Julian and Les Goldman
16mm
In this allegorical short, the people of a town are condemned to die one by one by a mysterious stranger who erects a gallows in the town square. The townspeople create a rationale for each hanging, until only one person is left, he who failed all along to raise his voice in protest. More

His Excellency (Yevo Prevoshoditelstvo)
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USSR, 1928, 76 minutes (Incomplete: missing one reel), B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Roshal
35mm 16mm DVD
This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. More

His People
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USA, 1925, 91 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Edward Sloman
16mm DVD
The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect. More

His Wife's Lover(Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik)
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USA, 1931, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
35mm DVD
His Wife’s Lover stars the popular comedian of the Yiddish theatre Ludwig Satz. It was billed as the "first Jewish musical comedy talking picture." More

Holy For Me
Israel, 1995, 34 min, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Assaf Bernstein
DVD
This fiction film spoofs tours of the "holy" sites of Israel. Join Jonah and his unwitting group of tourists on an insane two-day tour of Tel Aviv. More

House of Rothschild
USA, 1934, 88 minutes, B&W
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
16mm
George Arliss stars as Nathan Rothschild in this chronicle of the famed banking family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars. More

The House on Chelouche Street (Ha-Bayit Berechov Chelouche)
Israel, 1973, 115 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrahi
16mm
This Academy Award-nominated feature focuses on Sami, a teenager from a newly-arrived, poor Sephardic family living in the slums of Palestine during the turbulent last days of the British Mandate. More

How Moshe Came Back
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USA, 1914, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Produced by Crystal Films
16mm DVD
An example of Jewish characterizations in the silent film era, Moshe, a 98-pound boxer defeats his 240-pounds opponent…by cheating. More

Hungry Hearts
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USA, 1922, 80 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Added original soundtrack (2006)
Directed by E. Mason Hopper
16mm DVD
A Hollywood adaptation of the short stories of Anzia Yezierska, the first writer to bring stories of American Jewish women to a mainstream audience, Hungry Hearts focuses on the hopes and hardships of the Levin family, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe living on New York City's Lower East Side. More

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I Love You, Rosa (Ani Ohev Otach Rosa)
Israel, 1972, 84 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Moshe Mizrachi
16mm
Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Film. Jerusalem's Orthodox community at the turn of the century is the setting for this now-classic film about the life of a young Sephardic widow. More

I Want To Be A Boarder (Ich Vil Zeyn a Boarder)
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USA, 1937, 15 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm 16mm DVD
A lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant. More

The Immigrant
USA, 1917, 20 minutes, b&w
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
16mm
Charlie Chaplin's hilarious portrayal of a penniless immigrant's journey to, and arrival in, America. More

The Imported Bridegroom
USA, 1990, 93 minutes, color
Directed by Pamela Berger
35mm 16mm DVD
A Jewish romance begins when Asriel, a turn-of-the-century, rich Boston widower returns from a visit to the old country with a man he believes is the perfect man for his daughter. But when the two meet, his thoroughly modern daughter is appalled by this pious scholar, or is she? More

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Jakob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner)
GDR/East Germany, 1975, 95 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Frank Beyer
35mm 16mm
Jakob Heym, a Jew trapped in a Polish ghetto, overhears news of a nearby Russian victory on a Gestapo radio. Pretending to have heard the good news on his own clandestine radio, Jakob passes the word on to his neighbors. More

The Jazz Singer
USA, 1927, 90 minutes, B&W
Silent with intertitles and some sound
Directed by Alan Crosland
16mm
This landmark of modern cinema, the first “talking picture,” is also a pro-assimilationist story about a cantor's son who rejects his family's tradition for Jazz and Broadway. More

The Jester (Der Purimspiler)
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Poland, 1937, 90 minutes, B&W with sepia tone and blue-green ton
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
35mm DVD
A parade of costume, buffoonery and music, The Jester highlights both a shoemaker's scheme to marry his daughter into a prominent family as well as the festival of Purim. More

Jewish Luck (Yevreiskoye Schastye / Menakhem Mendl)
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USSR, 1925, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Alexander Granovsky
35mm 16mm DVD
Menakhem Mendl (one of Sholem Aleichem’s characters) is a daydreaming entrepreneur who specializes in doomed strike-it-rich schemes. Despite Jewish oppression in Tsarist Russia, Mendl continues to pursue his dreams and his continued persistence transforms him from schlemiel to hero. More

Jolly Paupers (Freylekhe Kabtsonim)
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Poland, 1937, 62 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Leon Jeannot and Z. Turkow
35mm 16mm DVD
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. More

Joshua Then and Now
Canada, 1985, 127 minutes, color
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
16mm
Based on a novel by Mordechai Richler, allegedly his autobiography, this film tells the story of a Jewish writer, from his life as a young boy in Montreal to his more complicated grown-up life.

Judgment at Nuremberg
USA, 1961, 186 minutes, B&W
Directed by Stanley Kramer
16mm
An Oscar-winning, fictionalized film account of the Post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.

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Kazablan
Israel, 1973, 95 minutes, color
English dubbed
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This Israeli West Side Story unfolds when Kazablan, a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew, takes time out from hassling the poverty-stricken tenants of the Jaffa ghetto to court the fair-skinned Rachel, an Ashkenazi Jew. More

Kol Nidre
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USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden

Digital Blu-ray DVD
A melodrama -with music and romance- about a girl torn between two childhood boyfriends, this film is a suprisingly risque shund Yiddish tearjerker exploring assimilation, antisemitism and gender roles. More

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Ladies' Tailor (Damskiy portnoy)
USSR, 1990, 92 minutes, color
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Leonid Gorovets
35mm DVD
Set in Kiev, Russia, on 29 September 1941, this feature chronicles the last 24 hours in the lives of a Jewish tailor (renowned Russian actor Innokenty Smoktunovsky) and his family just prior to their deportation and execution at Babi Yar. More

Laughter Through Tears (Skvoz Slezy)
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USSR, 1928, 92 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Grigori Gricher-Cherikover
35mm 16mm DVD
Gricher-Cherikover leavens pathos with humor in this earthy portrait of pre-Revolutionary shtetl life based on two Sholem Aleichem stories. Motl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender. More

Leon the Pig Farmer
UK, 1992, 98 minutes, color
Direced by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor
35mm DVD
An irreverent comedy from the production company of Monty Python's Eric Idle, this zany story is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that he is the product of artificial insemination. More

A Letter to Mother (A Brivele der Mamen)
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Poland, 1939, 106 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Leon Trystand
35mm 16mm DVD
One of the last Yiddish films made in Poland, ths is story of a mother's persistent struggles to support her three children in pre-war Polish Ukraine. After her family is pulled apart by the war, she and her children make their way to New York and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society. More

The Light Ahead (Fishke the Lame)
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USA, 1939, 94 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Impoverished and disabled lovers Fishke and Hodel dream of life in the big city of Odessa, free of the poverty and old-world prejudices of the shtetl. Made on the eve of World War II, The Light Ahead is at once romantic, expressionist, and conscious of the danger about to engulf European Jews. One of four Yiddish features directed by Edgar Ulmer. More

The Living Orphan (Der Lebediker Yusem)
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USA, 1937, 97 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD
The story of a stage couple whose marriage is strained by life in the theater. Adapted from one of the best 2nd Avenue Yiddish Theatre domestic melodramas, director Joseph Seiden’s sentimental film is drawn from life in 1930s New York City. More

Long Fliv the King
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USA, 1926, 22 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Leo McCarey
16mm DVD
This offbeat comedy from future Hollywood screwball director McCarey is about a princess who must find a husband in 24 hours or forfeit her throne. She quickly marries a condemned man—but the man is pardoned. More

Long is the Road (Lang ist der Veg)
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U.S.-Occupied Germany, 1948, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish, German, Polish with new English subtitles
Directed by Herbert B. Fredersdorf & Marek Goldstein
35mm 16mm DVD
Written by Israel Becker, this is the first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Shot on location at Landsberg, the largest DP camp in U.S.-occupied Germany, the film follows a Polish Jew from pre-war Warsaw through Auschwitz and the DP camp. More

Love and Sacrifice (Libe und Laydnshaft)
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USA, 1936, 76 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by George Roland
35mm
The tale of a middle-class matron who shoots the man who compromises her, this film is a prime example of "shund," the melodramatic escapist entertainment of the Yiddish theater. More

Love at Second Sight (Ahava Mimabat Sheni)
Israel, 1998, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Michal Bat-Adam
35mm DVD
Renowned Israeli filmmaker/actress Michal Bat-Adam wrote and directed this intriguing tale of romantic obsession in present-day Tel Aviv. Michal Zuaratz stars as a young female photographer infatuated with a stranger whose image she accidentally captures on film. More

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Mahler on the Couch
Austria/Germany, 2010, 97 minutes, color
German w/ English subtitles
Directed by Percy Adlon & Felix Adlon
35mm
This exuberant imagining of the real-life marriage of Gustav Mahler (Johannes Silberschneider) and his tempestuous wife Alma Schindler Mahler (the luminous Barbara Romaner) is a sensory feast of art, sex and celebrity in fin-de-siècle Vienna. Chafing under her agreement to give up her own musical ambitions, Alma seeks passion in the arms of the young, dashing architect Walter Gropius, which sends a tormented Mahler to Sigmund Freud for consultation. More

Mamele
NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION BY NCJF
Poland, 1938, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
16mm DCP DigiBeta Blu-ray DVD
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, keeping the family intact, singing and acting her way through the stages of a woman's life from childhood to old age. More

Marriage in the Shadows (Ehe im Schatten)
GDR/East Germany, 1947, 96 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Kurt Maetzig
16mm
Based on a true story and adapted from the novel by Hans Schweikart, this fiction feature marks the German cinema's first attempt to address antisemitism and the Holocaust. More

Mirele Efros
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USA, 1939, 80 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Berne
16mm DVD
Mirele Efros
, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of influential Yiddish playwright Jacob Gordin. Berta Gersten gives a memorable performance as Mirele, a wealthy and pious widow whose devotion to her children extends to hand-picking a wife for her eldest son. Unfortunately, she gravely mistakes the young woman's character. More

Motel the Operator
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USA, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm DVD
Focusing on a labor dispute in the garment district of New York City, the film survives as an important historical document highlighting the hardships of the Jewish immigrant experience in America. More

Mothers of Today (Hayntige Mames)
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USA, 1939, 85 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henry Lynn
35mm DVD
Mothers of Today includes the sole motion picture performance of radio star Esther Field, who was well-known on the radio airwaves of the 1930's as the 'Yidishe Mama.' More

My Mother's Courage (Mutters Courage)
Germany, 1996, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
From the director of The White Rose comes this stunning adaptation of Hungarian author George Tabori’s autobiographical, somewhat surreal novel. Shifting between Nazi-occupied Budapest and modern Berlin, the film artfully depicts the true story of how Tabori’s mother Elsa escaped deportation to Auschwitz. More

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The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen)
Germany, 1990, 92 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
16mm
Based on the true story of Ann Elisabeth Rosmus, Michael Verhoeven's award-winning black comedy uses sharp wit to explore Germany's Nazi past. More

Nightmare: The Immigration of Joachim and Rachel
USA, 1978, 24 minutes, color/B&W
Directed by Tom Robertson
16mm
During the struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, thirteen-year-old Joachim and his little sister Rachel receive final instructions from their parents: hide in an old cabinet. More

Nize People
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USA, 1927, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Sam Newfield
16mm
A slapstick comedy in the immigrant/vaudeville genre, Lizzie believes her necklace has been stolen, setting off a series of crazy events when Mr. O'Connor hires the "world's greatest detective," who turns out be Lunatic Louie, an escapee from an insane asylum! More

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Old Isaac, The Pawnbroker
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USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by Wallace McCutcheon
16mm DVD
In this film, a small girl in an urban slum seeks aid for her sick and starving mother. Trying to pawn her doll, she attracts the attention of the shop’s owner old Isaacs, who later stops the men trying to evict the sick woman. More

Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan)
Israel, 1977, 126 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Menahem Golan
16mm
This feature film is a stunning retelling of the famed 4 July 1976 raid by Israeli commandos to rescue 104 passengers from a hijacked plane grounded in Entebbe, Uganda, in Africa. More

Our Children (Unzere Kinder)
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Poland, 1948, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Natan Gross and Shaul Goskind
35mm 16mm DVD
In this, Poland’s last Yiddish feature film, comedy duo Dzigan and Shumacher play all the parts in a Sholem Aleichem story staged for an audience of children who survived the Holocaust. More

Overture to Glory (Der Vilner Balebesl)
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USA, 1940, 77 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm 16mm DVD
The story of a Vilna cantor seduced by the opera resonates with the voice of Moishe Oysher. Carefully lit cinematography, well-shaped dialogue, and Alexander Olshanetsky's musical score steer Overture clear of melodramatic excess. More

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Papa's Pest
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USA, 1928, 20 minutes, B&W
Silent with English intertitles
Directed by Les Goodwins

16mm DVD
Another in the Izzie and Lizzie series, this film continues the slapstick style which explodes from a domestic comedy into a frenzy of wild action and fast chases. More

The Pawnbroker
USA, 1965, 114 minutes, B&W
Directed by Sidney Lumet
16mm
One of the first films to deal with the effects of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps on their survivors. One survivor, played by Rod Steiger, suffers an internal conflict between submitting to the injustices he endured or resisting the injustice. More

Pillar of Salt (Natziv Hamelech)
Israel, 1980, 58 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Haim Shiran
16mm DVD
Based on the autobiographical novel by sociologist Albert Memmi, this feature film about an expressive and intelligent 13-year old boy captures the cultural richness and social complexity of a Jewish boy's life in Tunisia, North Africa. More

Purple Lawns (Deshaim S'Gulim)
Israel, 1998, 56 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Dina Zvi-Riklis

DVD
In this feature film, Yael and Shlomit, two secular, free-spirited women, share a flat in Tel Aviv. Their high rent forces them to take in a third roommate, Malka, an enigmatic ultra-orthodox woman with a secret. More

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Radio Days
USA, 1987, 85 minutes, color
Directed by Woody Allen
16mm
Woody Allen narrates his nostalgic look at growing up in Queens, NY in the 1940s, showing how memories of family life are intimately tied to the radio performers of the day. More

Raindrops aka If Only the Rain (Regentropfen)
West Germany, 1981, 90 minutes, B&W
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Hoffman and Harry Raymon

16mm
Harry Raymon wrote the screenplay for this feature based on his own experiences as a young German-Jewish boy growing up amidst the rise of the Third Reich. An 8-year old boy and his family prepare to move from their small town to Cologne, on their way to America. More

The Return of Nathan Becker (Nosn Becker Fort Aheym)
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USSR, 1932, 72 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Boris Shpis and Mark Milman
35mm DVD
Yiddish author Peretz Markish wrote the screenplay for this film about a bricklayer who returns home to Russia after 20 years in America. The only Russian-Yiddish sound film produced in the Soviet Union, the film glorifies Soviet industrial productivity as it denigrates American capitalism and assimilation. More

Romance of a Jewess
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USA, 1908, 10 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Directed by D.W. Griffith
16mm DVD
This early D. W. Griffith short shows the director's interest in Jewish ghetto life, portrayed here with sympathy and sentimentality. The melodramatic plot involves the conflict between generations in an immigrant Jewish family. More


Rosenzweig's Freedom (Rosenzweigs Freiheit)
Germany, 1998, 89 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Liliane Targownik

35mm DVD
When Michael Rosenzweig a working-class German Jew is charged with the murder of a neo-Nazi leader, he and his family find themselves fighting for justice is the face of with a brick wall of prejudice. More


Rutenberg (Ish HaHashmal)
Israel, 2002, 90 minutes, color
English and Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Eli Cohen
35mm DVD
Cohen takes an elliptical approach in telling the story of Pinchas Rutenberg, a visionary, complex, and larger-than-life figure, who, amongst other things, brought electricity to Jewish Palestine in the early 20th century by building a hydroelectric power station. More

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Santa Fe
Austria, 1985, 110 minutes, B&W
German with English Subtitles
Directed by Axel Corti
DVD
Picking up after God Does Not Believe In Us Anymore, Freddy struggles to find work after arriving in New York in 1940. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a poet/delicatessen owner, an aging surgeon who cannot find work, and a lovable charlatan photographer. Corti’s trilogy continues with Welcome In Vienna. More

Schund
Israel, 2010, 56, minutes, color
Hebrew, Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Yael Leibovitz Zand

DVD
In this clever and heartfelt mockumentary, a renowned Yiddish actor disappears under criminal circumstances. Searching for him twenty-five years later we meet the colorful characters that made up Israel’s vibrant Yiddish scene during the country’s first decades. More

Second Watch (Mishmeret Shniya)
Israel, 1995, 14 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Udi Ben-Arie
16mm DVD
An Israeli reserve soldier on watch at a remote post along the Israeli-Jordanian border finds a Jordanian soldier who is bored to death just like him. Together they pass the time, help each other, get into trouble and still manage to get away with it. More

Seekers of Happiness (Birobidzhan)
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USSR, 1934, 84 minutes, B&W
Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Vladimir Korsh-Sablin
DVD
During the 1920s, many Jews moved to Birobidzhan, the Soviet Jewish Autonomous Region on the Chinese border. This melodrama tells the story of a Jewish family’s immigration and their experiences as settlers on a collective farm in the area. More

The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze)
Czechoslovakia, 1965, 128 minutes, B&W
Czech with English subtitles
Directed by Jan Kadar
16mm
This haunting tragicomedy takes place during the early days of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. A simple, amiable carpenter appointed "aryan controller" of a Jewish shop is faced with a choice: save the shop’s elderly owner or comply with Nazi policies. More

The Shower (Ha-Miklachat)
Israel, 1997, 35 minutes, color
Hebrew with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich
35mm DVD
An elderly man's anxiety in the face of loneliness and death fades and unresolved familial conflicts disappear for a few moments of grace when his son bathes him for the last time. More

The Singing Blacksmith (Yankl Der Schmid)
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USA, 1938, 95 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Moishe Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Ulmer’s film is a musical version of David Pinski’s classic 1906 play Yankl der Schmid. More

Singing in the Dark
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USA, 1956, 86 minutes, B&W
Directed by Max Nosseck
35mm DVD
A quirky combination of 1950s movie conventions—the musical, gangster and mystery movie—this virtually unknown independent film is one of the first American features to dramatize the Holocaust. Starring Moishe Oysher as a German concentration camp survivor suffering from traumatic amnesia who becomes a New York singing sensation. More

So We Said Goodbye (Nifradnu Kach)
Israel, 1991, 26 minutes, color/B&W
Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Jorge Gurvich
35mm DVD
While saying goodbye to his son and grandchildren who are leaving Israel, Yackov remembers when, as a child, he also said goodbye to his family in Poland in 1937, not realizing that he would never see them again. More

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Tevye
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USA, 1939, 96 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Maurice Schwartz
35mm 16mm DVD
Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave, Tevye the Dairyman’s daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. More

Three Days in April (Drei Tage im April)
Germany, 1995, 100 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Oliver Storz
35mm DVD
In the small Swabian village of Nesselbühl, Germany, in April 1945, Anna still believes hope can be found in trusting the Führer. But then, three cattle cars filled with Jewish concentration camp prisoners being moved to another camp are left abandoned on the train tracks. More

The Turkey (La Dinde)
Belgium, 1998, 18 minutes, color
French with English subtitles
Directed by Sam Garbarski

35mm
Billed as "a Jewish Christmas tale," this award-winning short takes place in Brussels, 1953. More

Two Sisters (Tsvey Shvester)
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USA, 1938, 82 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
Directed by Ben K. Blake
16mm DVD
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 the two fall in love. More

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Uncle Moses
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USA, 1932, 87 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles

Directed by Sidney Goldin & Aubrey Scotto
16mm DVD
When poverty and persecution compel his Polish landsmen to leave their shtetl, "Uncle" Moses, the crude and lusty former butcher, welcomes them to his Lower East Side clothing factory. More

  The Unfortunate Bride (Di Umgliklikhe Kale)
(reedited reissue of 1926 silent Broken Hearts)

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USA, 1932, 68 minutes, B&W
Yiddish and English intertitles with music and sound sequences

Directed by Maurice Schwartz

35mm
A film within a film where a man tells his grandchildren a cautionary tale about a Jewish political dissident who leaves his wife in Russia and heads for America, where he experiences the new value system operating among some American Jews. More

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A Vilna Legend (Dem Rebns Koyekh)
(reissue of Tkies Kaf/The Vow, 1924)
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USA, 1933, 60 minutes, B&W
Yiddish narration with English subtitles
Directed by Zygmund Turkow (1924); George Roland (1933)
35mm 16mm DVD
Starring real-life mother and daughter Ester-Rokhl Kaminska and Ida Kaminska, this film is a precursor to The Dybbuk featuring the same classic tale of frustrated love and destiny and the breaking/fulfillment of vows. More

The Vow (Tkies Kaf)
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Poland, 1937, 82 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Henryk Szabo

35mm DVD VHS
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. More

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The Wandering Jew (Der Vanderner Yid)
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USA, 1933, 66 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by George Roland
35mm DVD
A German-Jewish artist encounters anti-semitism when his masterpiece is rejected by the Academy. The figure in the painting then comes to life and tells of Jewish persecution throughout history. This unusual film ends with footage of an anti-Hitler rally at Madison Square Garden. More

The Way We Were
USA, 1973, 118 minutes, color
Directed by Sydney Pollack
16mm
A love story between opposites spanning three decades: Katie, a Jewish political activist (Barbra Streisand) and Hubbell, a New York WASP writer (Robert Redford). Notable for its portrayal of a strong positive Jewish heroine and also serves as one of the few films to portray Jewish participation in the socialist movement of the '30s and the protests during the '50s.

Welcome in Vienna
Austria, 1986, 125 Minutes, B&W
German with English Subtitles
Directed By Axel Corti

DVD
The conclusion of Axel Corti’s trilogy. Freddy and Adler, a left-wing intellectual, return to Austria in 1944 as soldiers in the U.S. Army. Freddy falls in love with the daughter of a Nazi, and Adler attempts to go over to the Communist Zone. More

When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (Ab ins Paradies)
Czechoslovakia/Germany, 2000, 90 minutes, color
Czech and German with English subtitled
Directed by Iva Svarcova
35mm DVD
1969: The first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague. Just as three astronauts are flying to the moon, thirteen-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land in the German economic wonderland. More

Where is My Child? (Vu iz Mayn Kind?)
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USA, 1937, 92 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Abraham Leff and Harry Lynn
16mm DVD
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. More

The White Rose (Die weiße Rose)
Germany, 1983, 108 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Michael Verhoeven
35mm
Lena Stolze (The Nasty Girl) stars in this acclaimed film based on the true story of five German students and their professor who as the White Rose protested the Nazi regime. More

Without a Home (On a Heym)
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Poland, 1939, 88 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Alexander Martin
16mm DVD
This, the last Yiddish feature film made in Poland before Word War II, is the story of the hardships faced by immigrants in America at the turn of the century. After the eldest son of the Rivkin family is drowned, the father leaves his family in Europe to go to America. More

A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting (Eine blaßblaue Frauenschrift)
Austria, 1984, 106 minutes, color
German with English subtitles
Directed by Axel Corti

DVD VHS
In October 1936, a high official in the Austrian government receives a letter from a German Jewish woman with whom he had an affair in 1925 asking him to help place an 11-year-old, half Jewish boy in a good Austrian school. More

The Wordmaker (Ish She'Ahav B'Ivrit)
Israel, 1991, 90 minutes, color
Hebrew, English, French and Russian with English subtitles
Directed by Eli Cohen
16mm DVD
At the beginning of the 20th century, a language war raged in Palestine among Yiddish, Russian, French, German, English, and Hebrew, a language barely spoken for 2000 years. This feature film tells the dramatic life story of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda who championed the cause of modern Hebrew. More

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Yentl
USA, 1983, 134 minutes, color
Directed by Barbra Streisand
16mm
Streisand produced, directed, co-authored and stars in this landmark musical based on Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story about a young woman who disguises herself as a boy in order to study at a yeshiva in turn-of-the-century Eastern Europe.

The Yiddisher Boy
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USA, 1909, 3 minutes, B&W
Silent without intertitles
Produced by the Lubin Company
16mm
Director Lubin (originally Lubszynski) was first Jewish-American filmmaker. In the film, Moses uses his last pennies to help a friend in need. 25 years later the men meet again. The film is remarkable in its depiction of tradition in the face of oppressive circumstances. More

Yiddle With His Fiddle (Yidl Mitn Fidl)
Poland, 1936, 92 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green & Jan Nowina-Przybylski

A penniless man and his daughter (Molly Picon) decide to become traveling musicians. The daughter, disguised as a boy to relieve her father's anxiety, and her father join together with "another" father-son duo for music, comedy, and romance. More

Yizkor
RESTORED BY NCJF
Austria, 1924, 100 minutes, B&W
Silent with new English intertitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
16mm DVD
This period drama set in 18th century Volhynia stars Maurice Schwartz as Leybke, a handsome Jewish guardsman who martyrs himself and saves his brethren. More

Yosl Cutler and His Puppets
RESTORED BY NCJF
USA, 1935, 18 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with new English subtitles
16mm DVD
Fanciful and slightly surreal sketches preserve Cutler’s work with the marionettes he designed, built, and brought to life. More

The Young Lions
USA, 1958, 167 minutes, B&W
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
16mm
The destiny of two soldiers during World War II. The German officer Christian approves less and less of the war, while the American GI Ackerman climbs the military hierarchy. More

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Zlateh the Goat
USA, 1973, 20 minutes, color
Directed by Gene Deitch
16mm
This heartwarming and uplifting tale is based on the book of the same name by Isaac Bashevis Singer. A family decides they must sacrifice their beloved goat... More

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