Immigrant Songs: Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience |
The recently produced film Immigrant Songs: Yiddish Theater and the American Jewish Experience depicts one of the most delightful yet often overlooked chapters of American Jewish cultural history. While giving viewers a pleasurable 46 minutes filled with beautiful paintings, pictures, photographs, and humor, the film informs them of a fascinating history of the Yiddish theater and music that accompanied the great wave of Jewish immigration to the United States, much of which began when more than a million Jews came to America from Eastern Europe in the 1880s. The film allows users to have captions that show what is being said, usually by professors or actors, and that translate Yiddish when it is spoken.
The film tells the history of modern Yiddish theater, which began in the 1870s, how it developed, why it declined for a time, and how it was revived. It informs us why the immigrants........