Awards
First Non-English Language Film To Be Included in
The National Film Registry by The Library Of Congress in 1991
The award-winning Yiddish feature filmstarring the renowned actor Maurice Schwartz is now on DVD. This classic film, preserved from the original nitrate negative with new English subtitles has been digitally restored and augmented with extras and program notes.
Maurice Schwartz's adaptation of the classic Sholem Aleichem play centers on Khave, Tevye the Dairyman’s daughter, who falls in love with Fedye, the son of a Ukrainian peasant. Her courtship and marriage pit Tevye’s love for his daughter against his deep-seated faith and loyalty to tradition. The clash between tradition and modernity, parental authority and love, customs and enlightenment are foreshadowed by the antisemitism of the rural community. Tevye's world is a microcosm of the larger world of Russian Jewry in the early 1900s.
The DVD extras include scenes from two Schwartz Yiddish language feature films, Yizkor and Uncle Moses, and program notes.
“With all due respect to Zero Mostel and Topol in Fiddler on the Roof, it was Maurice Schwartz, the great Yiddish actor/director, who first showed Tevye the Dairyman in his full light as a mensch for all seasons. A rare opportunity to see Schwartz in what may have been his most magnificent role."
-Judy Stone, San Francisco Chronicle
"Our Domain" (WMV format 2.5mb)
"Our Domain" (Quicktime format)
READ ALL ABOUT IT Schwartz’ TEVYE Receives the Royal Treatment from NCJF- Jan Lisa Huttner, WORLD JEWISH DIGEST (12/1/04)"YIDDISH TALES COME TO LIFE"
The Jewish Advocate, June 2007
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Classroom/Institutional Use Only DVDDoes not include Public Performance Rights
Institutional Use Policy (pdf)
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