American Matchmaker Amerikaner Shadkhn
Restored by NCJF
USA 1940 87 minutes B&W
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD
Leo Fuchs, the "Yiddish Fred Astaire," stars in this musical comedy as Nat Silver, a debonair and fabulously wealthy Jewish-American businessman whose recent engagement (his eighth) goes awry. More
USA 1949 93 minutes B&W
Directed by Josef Berne
16mm DVD
A Jewish resort hotel celebrates a pair of longtime customers' fiftieth wedding anniversary by staging an old-fashioned Borscht Belt show. More
USA, 2006, 120 minutes B&W/color
Hebrew, Yiddish & English with English subtitles
Directed by Rich Pontius
DVD
The long-awaited re-release of NCJF’s most popular titles, these two films feature some of the rarest and finest performances of renowned cantors from 1910 to the 1940s. More
USA 1937 15 minutes B&W Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Seiden
35mm 16mm DVD
Rubber-limbed Leo Fuch's song-and-dance highlights this lively short about a husband and wife who seek to reignite their marriage by pretending to be landlady and tenant. More
Poland 1937 90 minutes B&W
Directors: Joseph Green and Jan Nowina-Przybylski
35mm DVD
A parade of costume, buffoonery and music, The Jester highlights both a shoemaker's scheme to marry his daughter into a prominent family as well as the festival of Purim. More
Poland 1937 62 minutes B&W Yiddish with NEW English subtitles
Directed by Leon Jeannot/ Z. Turkow
35mm 16mm DVD
In this musical comedy, the famous comic duo Dzigan and Shumacher play two small town "entrepreneurs" who believe they have struck oil in a local field. More
Poland, 1938, 100 minutes, B&W
Yiddish with NEW additional English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green and Konrad Tom
Mamele is a muscial comedy that embraces the entire gamut of interwar Jewish life in Lodz in all its diversity, with tenements and unemployed Jews, nightclubs and gangsters, and religious Jews celebrating Succoth. More
USA 1938 B&W 95 minutes Yiddish with English subtitles
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
35mm 16mm DVD VHS
The Singing Blacksmith is the film version of "Yankl der Schmid," a classic 1906 drama that was one of the first Yiddish plays to offer a psychological study of physical passion. More
Poland, 1936, 92 minutes, b&w
Yiddish with NEW English subtitles
Directed by Joseph Green & Jan Nowina-Przybylski
35mm 16mm DVD
Director Green returned to his native Poland from America to produce this, the most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema. More
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