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	A Letter From Mother / A Brivele der Mamen A vivid and touching image of the Jewish life in the 'stetel' gives us a true picture of life as they were back in those days. It is one of the last films made in Warsaw before the Nazi invasion. Its tale of loss, family disintegration and poverty serves director...	$32.00 Add:
	A Yiddishe Mamme This heartrending drama is the story of new immigrants who arrive in the United States from Eastern Europe. They immediately begin to throw off the 'shackles' of the traditional Jewish way of life, abandoning their old values and customs in favor of the 'sparkle and...	$32.00 Add:
	Cantor's Son / Dem Khazns Zindl One of the great talents of the Yiddish theater, Moishe Oysher (1907-1958) gained a reputation not only for his acting, but for his voice. When not on the stage, Oysher, like his father and grandfather, served as a cantor. This is a dramatic film, loosely based on the...	$32.00 Add:
	Mirele Efros Mirele Efros, 'the Jewish Queen Lear,' was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeytthe practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family...	$32.00 Add:
	Tevye the Milkman Tevye is one of Sholom Aleichem's most famed and endearing characters. With his seemingly endless bad luck, and his resilience and humor in the face of catastrophe, Tevye epitomizes shtetl Jews of Eastern Europe as portrayed by the great Yiddish author. In this moving...	$32.00 Add:
	The Dybbuk / Der Dibuk Noted as one of the greatest Yiddish films ever made, this story of unfulfilled love and broken promises tells of how the spirit of a young man enters the body of his beloved after the couple are kept apart by her father. Avrom Morevsky and Lili Liliana star in this...	$32.00 Add:
	The Singing Blacksmith / Yankl Der Shmid The singing blacksmith takes place in a typical stetel in Russia. The hero of the story, played beautifully by Moishe Oysher, is a blacksmith in the village, which is having an easy life of a single young man and loves to drink and have fun. All this changes when he...	$32.00 Add:
	Yid'l Mitn Fidl / Yid'l with The Fiddle The most commercially successful musical in the history of the Yiddish cinema. Starring Molly Picon, consummate comedienne of Yiddish theater, vaudeville, and film. Molly Picon plays a young woman who poses as a boy in order to join a band of musicians traveling the...	$32.00 Add: