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1) Menashe
Language
Yiddish
Description
Widower and grocery store clerk Menashe fights tradition within Brooklyn's Hasidic Jewish community to keep custody of his son after his wife's death.
Series
Jewish soul volume disc 3
Language
Yiddish
Description
Tevya: Focuses on Khave, one of the daughters of Tevye the Dairyman, who loves a gentile, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. Tevye's paternal affection is placed in direct conflict with his deep commitment to Jewish religious tradition.
The Yiddish King Lear: In Vilna in 1892 a devout Jewish father is angered by his youngest daughter when she rejects an expensive gift. He instead turns his fortune over to the husband of his oldest daughter, with dire...
Series
Jewish soul volume disc 2
Language
Yiddish
Description
American matchmaker: Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he can have Shirley back, and Nat graciously gives in. According to Nat's mother, his Uncle Shya was unlucky at love but lucky as a matchmaker, and Nat is just like Shya. Nat tells his family he's going to Italy. But he remains in New York and...
Series
Jewish soul volume disc 1
Language
Yiddish
Description
The dybbuk: The mystical love story between Chonen, a poor Talmud student, and Lea, a girl from a wealthy family, depicts the traditional folk culture of Polish Jews before World War II.
Mir kumen on: One of the few surviving documentaries depicting pre-war Jewish life in Poland and life at the Jewish Labor Bund's Medem Sanatorium, a model residential children's institution. The Medem Sanatorium, which existed from 1926 through 1942, stood as a symbol...
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