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Music: A Main Character in Classic Yiddish Films


Yidl Mitn Fidl


As soon as sound could be attached to film, Yiddish filmmakers in Poland and the US, who had already developed a robust audience for silent film, jumped on the film score bandwagon.  In the mid-to-late 1930’s, which was the golden era of classic Yiddish film, music was a key component, whether the moody, haunting rhythms of the supernatural Dybbuk or the lively tunes in the Molly Picon vehicles Mamele (Little Mother) and Yidl Mitn Fidl (Yidl With A Fiddle). 

Using clips from a variety of classic Yiddish films, this talk, featuring Miri Koral, provides insight into how the melodies and the songs themselves were used to not only enhance but to further the films’ narratives about love, faith, and family.

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About Miri Koral

Miri Koral has a passion for Yiddish, which she has been exercising for over 20 years as an educator, translator, prize-winning bilingual writer, dialect coach for tv and film, events producer, and international speaker. She is the Continuing Lecturer in Yiddish at UCLA where she teaches language, literature, and film; and the Founding Director of the California Institute for Yiddish Culture and Language, known since 1999 for offering the most active, high quality and comprehensive Yiddish cultural and educational programming on the West Coast (www.yiddishi.org).  Her original works and translations have appeared in numerous print and on-line publications. Her most recent book-length translation is a biography entitled, Jacob Dinezon, the Mother Among Our Classic Yiddish Writers, by Shmuel Rozhanski (Jewish Storyteller Press (2016)). She holds degrees from Barnard College and Columbia University and is a native Yiddish speaker.  


When:
Thursday, December 19, 2019, 1:30 PM until 2:30 PM
Where:
Temple Emanuel - Corwin Family Sanctuary
300 N. Clark Dr (also Herzl Way)
Beverly Hills, CA  90211

310-288-3737
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Event Contact(s):
Talia S Karu
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