{"title":"Film (DVDs)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrowse our Film (DVDs) collection. Hot Sale.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"motel-the-operator-motl-der-operator-dvd","title":"Motel the Operator (Motl der Operator) DVD","description":"\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis classic melodrama captures the sentimental, emotional characters and the convoluted plots and fantastic coincidences which dominated the Second Avenue Yiddish theaters. Focusing on a labor dispute in the garment district of New York City, the film survives as an important historical document highlighting the hardships of the Jewish immigrant experience in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMotel, a poor laborer, loving husband and new father, leads cloakmakers in a strike for better working conditions. When he is severely injured by strikebreakers, his wife, Esther, and infant son are left destitute. Desperate to save her starving child, Esther gives him up for adoption to a wealthy couple, and then commits suicide. The richly-rendered beautiful Yiddish songs by Sholem Secunda featuring Cantor Leibele Waldman and Joel Feig's famous choir are a good example of the bittersweet melodrama in the finest tradition of the Yiddish theater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUSA, 1939, 88 minutes, B\u0026amp;W\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYiddish with new English Subtitles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirected by Joseph Seiden\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FILM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176383459486,"sku":"wce1787285384322","price":26.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/motel-the-operator-motl-der-operator-dvd_1.jpg?v=1787285389"},{"product_id":"singing-blacksmith-dvd-yankl-der-schmid","title":"Singing Blacksmith DVD (Yankl Der Schmid)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. 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Mordechai Hershman, Adolph Katchko, Moshe Koussevitsky, Moishe Oysher, David Roitman, Yossele Rosenblatt, Joseph Shlisky, Gershon Sirota, Leibele Waldman.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"FILM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176383557790,"sku":"xdp1787285386974","price":38.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/great-cantors-of-the-golden-age-great-cantors-in-cinema-dvd_1.jpg?v=1787285391"},{"product_id":"his-wifes-lover-zayn-vaybs-lubovnik-dvd","title":"His Wife's Lover (Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik) DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003eBilled as the \"first Jewish musical comedy talking picture,\" His Wife’s Lover stars the popular Yiddish theater comedian Ludwig Satz in one of his only surviving film performances. This fast-paced, song-filled comedy benefits from location camerawork of New York City’s Lower East Side and solid direction from Sidney Goldin, director of East and West (1923), Uncle Moses (1932) and The Cantor’s Son (1937), features previously restored by NCJF. With a script by a female author, Sheyne Rokhl Simkoff, His Wife’s Lover revels in its role reversals and love triangles all the while exploring the gender issues of its day. When handsome actor Eddie Wien decides to marry, his uncle Oscar Stein warns that all women are frivolous and selfish, only on the lookout for a fat pocketbook. To prove him wrong, Eddie woos shop girl Golde Blumberg while disguised as a repulsive old millionaire “Herman Weingarten.” Golde initially resists “Herman” but, forced to escape her dire financial situation, she finally accepts. A second bet is devised and the elaborate farce continues. In the end, the lovers triumph over deceptions and mistaken identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUSA, 1931, 80 minutes,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB\u0026amp;W, Yiddish with new English subtitles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirected by Sidney M. 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Motl's father dies, leaving him to survive on his own in a changing world while the tailor Shimen-Elye buys a she-goat which mysteriously changes gender each time its new owner stops at the inn between Kozodoyevka, where he purchased the creature, and Zlodyevke, where he lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn accord with then-official Soviet policies against antisemitism (which were always as odds with prevailing popular sentiments), Gricher-Cherikover emphasizes the poverty and repression of Jews under Czarist rule. 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Eager to assimilate into American society (or more exactly, for their children to be assimilated), yet conscious of their own connection to a dying traditionalism, the Yiddish audience for the movie were part of [Irving] Howe's `transitional generation,' stoically postponing gratification for the sake of their offspring. By presenting the psychic stresses of assimilation as an optimistic tragedy (or a grotesque comedy), Two Sisters acknowledged the situation of this transitional generation with a directness that precludes escapism.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e-J. Hoberman, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUSA, 1938, 82 minutes\u003cbr\u003eB\u0026amp;W, Yiddish with new English subtitles\u003cbr\u003eDirected by Ben K. 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The resulting conflict between the noble Jewish matriarch and her ungrateful, self-serving daughter-in-law provides both a cautionary tale and a lesson in the value of filial piety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"syntext\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUSA, 1939, 80 minutes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eB\u0026amp;W, Yiddish with new English subtitles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDirected by Josef Berne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBased on a play by Jacob Gordin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FILM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48176383721630,"sku":"rur1787285392920","price":27.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6345\/4366\/files\/mirele-efros-dvd_1.jpg?v=1787285397"}],"url":"https:\/\/urbanwearstore.shop\/collections\/film-dvds.oembed","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}