Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen, Part II: "Jolly Paupers" film screening

Part II of “Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen” is a Schoenberg Hall screening of the uproarious 1937 Yiddish-language musical comedy, “” (Jolly Paupers). The film was produced at the famed Kinor Film Studio in Warsaw. It features the same creative team that produced the 1924 opera “Bas-Sheve” — composer and screenwriter — and stars the legendary comedy duo of . Here is a from the film.
“Reviving Yiddish Stage and Screen” kicks off the Milken Center’s three-day UCLA conference, “Sonic Representations of Jewishness, Onscreen and Off.”

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This event is made possible by the Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

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