‘Der Purimshpiler’ 1937 in Yiddish: Reviewed by Chaim Pevner
This tale of a memorable Shlimmazel, one of the enduring classics of the pre-war Yiddish cinema was viewed at the Barbican Yiddish Film Retrospective, London, October, 1996. Co-Director Joseph Green cowrote the script with “Chaver-Paver”, the pen name of a well-known left-wing New York journalist, which in English would come out something…
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5 min readOct 19, 2020
