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Yiddish Theater: A Love Story

2007, Movie, NR, 80 mins

Yiddish Theater: A Love Story: Review

Israeli filmmaker Dan Katzir was vacationing in New York when he met 85-year-old Zypora Spaisman, grande dame of the Yiddish Theater. In short order, she had press-ganged him into making a documentary about her current production — protesting that he had no equipment except the home video camera he brought to shoot his trip was futile — and roped him into her struggling theater troupe's fight for survival. Born in Poland, Spaisman lost most of her family to the ... read more leave a comment