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unusual facts about Maurice Schwartz


Jud Süß

Jud Süß (Feuchtwanger play), 1927 adaption by Feuchtwanger of his 1925 novel; translated and produced in October 1929 by New York's Yiddish theatre star Maurice Schwartz


New York Jewish Film Festival

The 2011 Festival presented three restored films: Lies My Father Told Me (dir. Ján Kadár), a 1975 film about a boy living in a Montreal Jewish community in the 1920s; the 1956 film Singing in the Dark (dir. Max Nosseck), one of the first American feature films to dramatize the Holocaust, starring Moishe Oysher as a concentration camp survivor; and the 1930 Tevye (dir. Maurice Schwartz), restored with new English subtitles.


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