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A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Seed of Doubt, a short ...
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In ‘The Offering,’ the latest Yiddish-inflected horror movie, a Jewish spirit haunts Hasidic Brooklyn
The first horror movie franchise, he points out ... and there are several lines of Yiddish dialogue. The screenwriter and producer, Hank Hoffman, is the son of a rabbi and has a background ...
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The real Auschwitz commandant — and Yiddish resistance song — behind ‘The Zone of Interest’
What is the Yiddish song featured in the movie? Late in the film, an unnamed character — likely a partisan — sits down at a piano to play a song with an unusual melody. The song is “Sunbeams ...
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A Yiddish World Remembered
"It's unreal that all this could have just disappeared," says Polish native Mariem Adler Stok, one of the seniors whose memories of this "Yiddish world" give this documentary its life. The hour ...
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Helsinki Yiddish Cabaret
A group of musicians from New York, Berlin and Helsinki performs Yiddish revue songs by Helsinki-born Jac Weinstein (1883-1976). The songs offer a fascinating glimpse into the history of Helsinki ...