Film

Almonds and Raisins

7.019841h 30mDocumentary

Director: David Elstein
Year: 1984

This documentary examines the dozens of Yiddish-language talking films made in the United States and Europe between the release of The Jazz Singer in 1927 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939.

Top cast

Orson Welles

Narrator

Celia Adler

Herschel Bernardi

Eugenie Besserer

Fanny Brice

Directed by

David Elstein, Russ Karel

Written by

Wolf Mankowitz, Russ Karel

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