The World of Jewish Music: DVDs

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"Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis."

"The story of a Catholic war profiteer, Oskar Schindler, who risked his life and went bankrupt in order to save more than 1,000 Jews from certain death in concentration camps. ..."

"Yale Strom traveled to Eastern Europe to search for remnants of klezmer music (Jewish folk melodies) that survived the Holocaust such as recordings, sheet music and klezmer musicians. In this program he interviews and travels with Leopold Kozlowski, the last klezmer, who grew up in the tradition."

"In the early 1930's Hitler began firing Jewish musicians across Europe. Overcoming extraordinary obstacles, violinist Bronislaw Huberman moved these great musician to Palestine and formed a symphony that would become the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. ..."

"Fania Fenelon is a Jewish cabaret singer in Paris during the Nazi invasion. Fania and thousands of other Jewish and political prisoners are sent to the Auschwitz death camp. She and a group of other classical musicians are spared from death in exchange for performing music for their captors. ..."

"Follows three traveling Klezmer musicians as they tour the places of their past, including Florida, Poland, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. ..."

"This videodisc looks back at the all but vanished Jewish way of life that existed in eastern Europe before World War II. Through never before seen archival films, vintage photographs, traditional cantorial and Klezmer music, and personal recollections, once-vibrant cities and small towns come alive again. Narrated by Elliot Gould, the film explores everything from the fascinating language of Yiddish to the style of dress and more."

Music CD (2 CDs; 1 DVD)
CD 1, In the fiddler's house. Reb Itzik's nign -- Simkhes toyre time -- Flatbush waltz -- Wedding medley -- Dybbuk shers -- Basarabye -- Firn di mekhutonim aheym -- Tati un mama tants -- Fisherlid = Fisherman's song -- Der alter bulgar -- Ale brider -- Honga -- Doyna & skotshna -- Der heyser bulgar -- Di gayster --

CD 2, Live in the fiddler's house. Bukovina 212 -- Lekho neraneno -- Doina naftule -- A hora mit branfn -- Healthy baby girl hora -- Golem tants -- Honga encore -- Nign -- Bulgars/The kiss -- Meron nign/In the sukke -- Sholom aleykhem -- Khaiterma -- Andy's ride -- A heymisher bulgar/Wedding dance -- Kale bazetsn = Seating the bride/Kusidl (Khasidic dance) -- Fun tashlikh -- A yingele fun Poyln = A young man from Poland/Di mame iz gegangen in mark arayn = Mother went to market -- Processional/Klezmer suite/Ale brider = We are all brothers --

DVD. Perlman's first klezmer lesson -- Dinner in New York -- Klezmer and mazeltov -- The many styles of klezmer -- Perlman in Krakow -- The Polish klezmer festival -- Perlman rehearses with the Klezmatics -- Perlman live in New York.

"A Russian mouse lands in New York in the 1880s, only to be separated from his family. He must now learn to live on the streets and evade the mean cats."