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Rarely seen 1923 German silent film
World Premiere of electronic music score by Thomas Köner

This Ancient Law (Das alte Gesetz)
Modern Theater at Suffolk University - Sat. Oct. 13, 7pm | Details

"Brave New World, Same Old Shtick: Cinema From New York’s
Lower East Side" - A Program of Five NCJF archival films &
post film panel with Professor Eddy Portnoy, Author David Freeland,
NCJF Associate Director Lisa Rivo

Anthology Film Archives (NYC) - Thurs. Oct. 4, 7:30pm
Presented by Cinebeasts |Program Details

NCJF archive films in permanent exhibition of two new museums

National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia
Yiddle Home Movies Ben Gurion
Eddie Cantor Soviet Jewry Rally (Pictured at top left)

Illinois Holocaust Museum, Skokie
The Führer Gives a City to the Jews (Pictured at bottom left) Warsaw Ghetto Jewish life in Pre-War Bialystok, Vilna, Warsaw, Kurow, Gombin, Novogrodek, Horodok, and the Carpathian Mountains

Washington DC JFF- December | Festival Site
Orders of Love Yizkor (Remembrance) Mahler on the Couch
Women Unchained Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Partisans of Vilna
Singing in the Dark The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg

Palm Beach JFF- December | Festival Site
Mahler on the Couch Jewish Soldiers in Blue and Gray The Cantor's Son
Women Unchained Grace Paley: Collected Shorts

NCJF Director Sharon Pucker Rivo & Yiddish Film in Jewish Ideas Daily | Link

NCJF Classic Films -
Centerpiece of Tivka Records "Pop-Up Store" | Site
Queen's Nails Annex | San Francisco, CA

Blog: MissionMission.org | Blog: BoingBoing.net

Helen Beverley, star of Yiddish film classics Green Fields, The Light Ahead and Overture to Glory, dies at 94
| Press Release

"Central to [The Light Ahead] is a riveting performance by Helen Beverley...Beverly and Opatoshu are perhaps the most beautiful couple in the history of Yiddish cinema, and their scenes have a touching erotic chemistry.” - J. Hoberman

“The whole experience of Green Fields," Beverley wrote, “was the most marvelous thing that ever happened to me...”

Mahler on the Couch wins Best Pic Audience Award!
8 NCJF Restored Yiddish films - "Highlight of Festival"

Medias Central European Film Festival
Hot News Romania interview with Sharon Pucker Rivo & Feature Story on Yiddish Screenings

Till the Tenth Generation
Holocaust survivor shares story at Stonehill College
Tomi Reichental: "I am fulfilling a mission." | Full Article (The Enterprise)

Jewish Cuisine Survives in Libya
The Last Jews of Libya director offers insight
"It is believed that the Jewish presence has passed out of existence." | Full Article (The Atlantic)

"Picture This"
Brandeis Magazine article on NCJF:
“Encompassing everything from Nazi propaganda films to vaudeville skits, the center’s collection does not gather dust on the archive shelves, but is deployed by thousands of scholars and filmmakers.” | Full Article

Robert Jay Lifton: Nazi Doctors
U.S. Theatrical Premiere at Film Forum, NYC:
“Lifton’s elegantly reasoned, 87-minute response to events that were famously declared to have put an end to poetry brings us closer to the truth of what happened than gruesome images ever could.” –Village Voice Book Screenings Now

"Singing Sensation"
Tablet article on Moishe Oysher:
“One of the great celebrity cantors and Yiddish movie stars of the World War II era.” | Full Article

Sidney Lumet (1924-2011)
Masterful director of more than 70 films, including Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico, The Verdict, Prince of the City & The Pawnbroker. The son of Yiddish theater actors Baruch Lumet and Eugenia Wermus, Sidney Lumet (left) began his career on the Yiddish stage at age 4. Click here to see archival photos donated to NCJF by Baruch Lumet

Donald Krim (1945-2011)
NCJF colleague, advisor and friend, Don Krim, founder of Kino International, was a pioneering films distributor who introduced American audiences to some the best foreign and classic films. New York Times obituary

SF Jewish Film Festival Reviews on the 5 NCJF films that screened there: Grace Paley: Collected Shorts Gruber's Journey Hungry Hearts Einsatzgruppen Father's Footsteps | Read Reviews 2011 NYJFF Encore Screenings at Lincoln Center! Feb. 13 Singing in the Dark "This strange, threadbare drama is high Holocaust kitsch... but the film gets its power and its virtue from the psychic liberation of scarred survivors living, unhealed, in plain sight and silence." -The New Yorker | Full New Yorker Review Tevye Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play! Book-signing with J. Hoberman, author of Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds. Introduction by Sharon Pucker Rivo.

NCJF @ Atlanta Jewish Film Festival February 2011 | Buy Tickets Now Einsatzgruppen Yiddle with His Fiddle NCJF @ Washington Jewish Film Festival 6 Films, 5 Visiting Filmmakers | Dec. 2010 | Festival Site A Pause in the Holocaust North American Premiere 2 or 3 Things I Know About Him Director Malte Ludin in person Bar Mitzvah Lisa Rivo discusses this new film restoration Grace Paley: Collected Shorts Director Lilly Rivlin in person Gruber's Journey Director Radu Gabrea in person Next Year in... Argentina Director Jorge Gurvich in person Malte Ludin & Radu Gabrea Filmmaker Panel at the US Holocaust Museum - "Holocaust Films in the 21st Century" NCJF @ Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival January 11 & 12 | Festival Site Grace Paley: Collected Shorts NCJF @ New York Jewish Film Festival January 12-27 | Festival Site Singing in the Dark North American Premiere- New Restoration Tevye Celebration of re-release of BRIDGE OF LIGHT with J. Hoberman Grace Paley: Collected Shorts Director Lilly Rivlin in person

Press Coverage: 5 NCJF Films at SFJFF SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST OF FEST: "Gruber's Journey" & "Einsatzgruppen" (PDF) More Raves: "Gruber's Journey" & "Einsatzgruppen" (PDF) "Grace Paley" Rave in TRUSTMOVIES (PDF) Bay Guardian, KQED on "Einsatzgruppen" (PDF) Sharon Pucker Rivo will be present Festival Site Singing in the Dark July 13 & 15, 2010 World Premiere – New 35mm Restoration Jerusalem International Film Festival 20th Consecutive Year NCJF Premieres Film at JIFF. Sharon Pucker Rivo & Lisa Rivo to Present Press Release (PDF) Sharon Pucker Rivo honored at Benefit Gala at JCC of Rochester at George Eastman House. Co-honoree Elliott Gould. (Gould & Rivo, left) Gala Program (PDF)

Review: Being Jewish in France "Exceptional" By Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times, Aug 7, 2009 Edward Zwick's Short List: The Films of Axel Corti (print version only) Feb 2, 2009 Defiance director Zwick says of these films: "Closely observed, beautifully acted, utterly unsentimental yet profoundly moving". "Jewish Guys Get an Image Makeover" By Lewis Beale Los Angeles Times, Jan 4, 2009 NCJF's Lisa Rivo quoted "On the Horizon": New York Jewish Film Festival New Yorker, Jan 5, 2009 2 of 3 films cited are from NCJF

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Review: ALL JEWS OUT
The Jewish Advocate, April 2008

Review: ALL JEWS OUT
The Jewish Advocate, April 2008

"JUDAISM AS AN ELDER BROTHER"
The Jewish Advocate, November 2007

"LEADING LADIES RETURN IN 6 ISRAELI FILMS"
World Jewish Digest, October 2007

"FILM PROVES ISRAEL ROCKS"
The Jewish Advocate, September 2007

"A STOLEN ART WORLD"
The Jewish Advocate, September, 2007

"A SHARED PAST FOR THE JEWS AND IRISH",
The Jewish Advocate, September 2007

"JEWISH VETERANS RECALL STRUGGLE"
The Jewish Advocate, August 2007

"A REEL FINE WAY TO PRESERVE JEWISH HISTORY"
The Jewish Journal, August 2007

"A DEEPER LOOK AT SPANISH JEWS",
The Jewish Advocate, August 2007

"BRIEF REVIEWS: THE CANTOR'S SON",
Hadassah Magazine, August/September 2007

"GOOD DEEDS RECALLED; BRITISH 'SCHINDLER' HONORED"
The Jewish Advocate, August 2007

"THE SINGING BLACKSMITH IS A SLICE OF HISTORY"
The Jewish Advocate, July 2007

"THE JOY OF JEWISH SONG"
The Jewish Advocate, July 2007

"STALKING HISTORY"
World Jewish Digest, July 2007

"YIPPEE: A JOURNEY TO JEWISH JOY"
World Jewish Digest, June 2007

"YIDDISH TALES COME TO LIFE"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"IN THE SOUTH, THEY SAY 'OY'"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"PUTTING THE PAST ONSTAGE"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"A JEWISH SNAPSHOT: FILM ON BOSTON LIFE..."
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007

"THE HEART OF JEWISH FILM IS BROOKLINE"
Our Town Brookline, April 2007

"BRIEF REVIEWS: YIPPEE: A JOURNEY TO JEWISH JOY"
Hadassah Magazine, February 2007

"SAVING YIDDISH FILMS"
Jewish Week, February 2007

"PAUL MAZURSKY WITNESSES CHASIDS GONE WILD"
Jewish Journal, January 2007

"HOLLYWOOD TO UMAN: WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP"
The Desert Sun, January 2007

"A FILM FESTIVAL FOR A JEWISH WORLD THAT SPANS THE GLOBE", The New York Times, January 2007

"MOVIES: DIASPORA AND ZION"
The New Yorker, January 2007

"THE STRONG, SILENT TYPE"
Jewish Week, January 2007

FLYER: HUNGRY HEARTS SCREENING AT USC
November 2006

"HISTORIC YIDDISH FILM RESTORED"
News Tribune, July 2006

"HIAMISHE HOME VIEWING"
World Jewish Digest, April 2006

"TWO TRADITIONS, ONE STRUGGLE"
The Jewish Forward, January 2006

"CLOSE-UP: THE LIVING ORPHAN"
The Village Voice, January 2006

"REPRESENTING THE SHTETL ON FILM"
Jewish Herald-Voice Houston, October 2005

"THE SPIRITUAL AND THE SECULAR"
Art New England, August 2005

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