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A Cantor's Tale

2006, Movie, NR, 95 mins

A Cantor's Tale: Review

Erik Greenberg Anjou's documentary about Brooklyn-born and -raised cantor Jack Mendelson is both a biographical portrait and an exploration of the tradition of Jewish liturgical music in America. Mendelsohn is a filmmaker's dream, the embodiment of the term "larger than life." A big man with a deep, resonant voice and an outgoing and approachable manner, Mendelsohn grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, during the 1940s and '50s, when it was a largely Jewish neighborhood and when... read more leave a comment