Abstract
Recently discovered archival documents show the famous Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem’s (1859–1916) significant interest in the field of silent cinema. Living in Switzerland, he wrote a number of film scripts and established numerous contacts with various cinema figures in Berlin, Moscow, Riga, Odessa, Warsaw, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1913–14. World War I interrupted his creative ties and led him to abandon his cinema projects. However, when he immigrated to America in December 1914, his motion picture ambitions revived and he tried to establish contacts with a whole range of film companies: ‘Vitagraph,’ ‘Fox,’ ‘Universal,’ etc. The paper is dedicated to Sholem Aleichem’s quest to find a place for himself in the American cinematograph.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 256-274 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Jewish Culture and History |
Volume | 19 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2 Sep 2018 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Charlie Chaplin
- Early American cinema
- Ethnic cinema
- Hollywood
- Sholem Aleichem
- Yiddish literature
RAMBI Publications
- RAMBI Publications
- Sholem Aleichem -- 1859-1916
- Authors, Yiddish -- United States
- Motion picture industry -- United States -- History