Starring Nebbishes and Noodges, Yiddish Cinema Makes a Comeback

A Yiddish-language feature made with nonprofessional actors on the streets of Brooklyn? Joshua Z. Weinstein’s “Menashe” is not the product of a time machine but the belated rebirth of a venerable tradition

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Ruben Niborski plays the son of a widower embroiled in a custody ( Read more... )