Yiddish cinema
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Yiddish cinema refers to the Yiddish language film industry which produced some 130 full-length motion pictures and 30 shorts during its heyday from 1911 and 1940. Yiddish film almost disappeared afte
A Yiddish-language poster for East Side Sadie, directed by Sidney M. Goldin, 1929.
Tevya (film)
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Tevya is a 1939 American Yiddish film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character Tevye the Dairyman, also the subject of the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof. It was the first non-English lang
Yiddish cinema
…artistically accomplished production in the history of Yiddish cinema. The fourth great Yiddish film of the era was directed by Maurice Schwartz in 1939. Tevya, starring Schwartz as Sholem Aleichem's milkman, had a particularly high budget of $70,000 and a dark, contemplative plot, unlike most Yiddish productions…
Theatrical release poster in English and Yiddish