SCREENINGS

Cinebeasts/Anthology Film Archive, New York (2012)
Tuscaloosa Jewish Film Festival (2012)
Virginia Jewish Film Festival (2009)
Reno Jewish Film Festival (2008)
Vienna Jewish Film Festival, Vienna Film Archive (2008)
San Diego Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Sacramento Jewish Film Festival (2007)
Seattle Jewish Film Festival (2007)
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (2006)
Tucson Jewish Film Festival (2006)
Toronto Jewish Film Festival (2004)
L’chaim Jewish Film Festival (2004)

This short gem features Louis "Leibele" Waldman playing three different parts - first an old-world Eastern European, then a German, each auditioning to be the synagogue cantor. Displeased with what they've heard and unable to agree, the synagogue committee is visited by Leibele's agent who offers them a third alternative: a modern an American Chazan, with "pep and jazz," who can do Kol Nidre with a "two-step" and Netaneh Tokef with a "black bottom."

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"A Cantor on Trial is a precious cultural artifact, a very funny satire of Jewish identity in flux." -Toronto Jewish Film Society

PURCHASE DVD

HOME USE ONLY $18.00 plus shipping Home Use Only DVD (Not for Classroom/Institutional Use) Does not include Public Performance Rights Home Use Policy (pdf)

INSTITUTIONAL USE $25.00 plus shipping Classroom/Institutional Use Only DVD Does not include Public Performance Rights Institutional Use Policy (pdf)

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A Cantor on Trial

USA 1931 10 Minutes
B&W, Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Sidney M. Goldin
Music by Sholem Secunda

RESTORED
with New English Subtitles by
The National Center for Jewish Film

$25 Institutional Use DVD
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$18 Home Use VHS
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Also available in entirety on
Great Cantors 2 Disc Set

Public Exhibition 35mm, 16mm, Beta Rental also available