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Lili Liliana |
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Jenny Dorman Grossman |
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Joseph Schoengold |
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Moishe Dorfman |
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Bertha Hart |
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Sarah Dorfman |
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Menashe Oppenheim |
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Jack Grossman |
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Leon Liebgold |
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Yosef Goldstein |
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David Lederman |
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Shmuel 'Shmelke' Shmelkevitz |
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Yetta Zwerling |
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Chassie Shmelkevitz |
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Louis Waldman |
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Chaim Tauber |
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Zishe Katz |
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June Rose
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Clinton Theatre, 80 Clinton St., Telephone:
Orchard 7-0513.
"Now playing for the first time, the new Yiddish talkie, 'Kol Nidre,'
with the main artists of the Yiddishe Bande, and Cantor Leibele
Waldman. With a large chorus. Music by Sholom Secunda." |
KOL NIDRE
(KOL NIDRE)
Directed by Joseph Seiden
Story by Ben Gitlitz
Music by Sholom Secunda
Filmed in Hollywood, California, U.S.
Released in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 1939.
1939, 88 minutes, B & W
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A bissel of this, a bissel of that,
Kol Nidre has a little bit of everything, combining
family melodrama and romance with popular songs, cantorial
music and comic bits in an inventive pastiche of themes and
styles. The film stars Lili Liliana and Leon Liebgold, the
husband and wife Polish actors from The Dybbuk,
comedienne Yetta Zwerling, Motl the Operator star
Chaim Tauber, and entertainer Cantor Leibele Waldman, with
music by Sholem Secunda. Long lost, Kol Nidre has
been restored with new English subtitles, using the sole
surviving 35mm nitrate print ...
Kol Nidre marks the on-screen reunion
of Leon Liebgold and Lili Liliana, the husband and wife
Warsaw actors famous for their roles as the young lovers in
1937's The Dybbuk. Also featured are the comedienne
Yetta Zwerling, Motl the Operator star Chaim Tauber, and
popular entertainer and cantor Leibele Waldman ...
Like many shund (low budget, over the
top) Yiddish dramas, Kol Nidre is an inventive
pastiche of themes and styles, combining family drama and
romance with songs and cantorial music. The film opened at
the Clinton Theater on New York's Lower East Side on
September 7, 1939, two weeks before Yom Kippur (when the
prayer Kol Nidre is sung) and one week after the Nazi
invasion of Poland.
-- The National Center for Jewish
Film
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