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Sholem Aleichem : laughing in the darkness / a film by Joseph Dorman.
Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Filmakers Library : Riverside Films : New Video, [2012]
Description
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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ReCAP - Remote Storage: Video Collection
DVD 9506
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Subject(s)
Authors, Yiddish
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Biography
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Jews, East European
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19th century
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Social conditions
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Jews, East European
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History
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Sholem Aleichem 1859-1916
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Related name
Riverside Films
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Filmakers Library, inc
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New Video Group
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Dorman, Joseph, 1958-
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Kaufman, Bel
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Lansky, Aaron, 1955-
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Wisse, Ruth R.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Documentary films
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Nonfiction films
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Feature films
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Medium/Support
4 3/4 in.
Summary note
A portrait of writer Sholem Aleichem, whose stories about Tevye the milkman became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Aleichem (1859-1916) was a rebellious wordsmith who created a new genre of literature and used his remarkable humor to encapsulate the realities of the Eastern European Jewish world in the late nineteenth century. Using a rich collection of archival footage, the film recreates a time in czarist Russia when Jews were second-class citizens and frequent scapegoats in times of social and political unrest.
Notes
Winner: Jerusalem International Film Festival.
Special features: Making the film; on Sholem Aleichem.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2011.
Creation/Production credits
Director, Joseph Dorman.
System details
DVD, full screen (1.33:1) presentation.
Awards
Jerusalem International Film Festival
Participant(s)/Performer(s)
With commentaries from Bella Kaufman (Aleichem's 100-year-old granddaughter), Aaron Lansky of the Yiddish Book Center, and Professor Ruth Wisse of Harvard University.
Other title(s)
Laughing in the darkness
ISBN
9781463110703
1463110707
Publisher no.
NNVG284351
OCLC
806474379
Universal Product Code
767685284353
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