Seymour Rechtzeit remembers some of the most important figures from the heyday of the American Yiddish theater. Includes footage from a performance of David Meyerowitz's Vos geven iz geven un nito, and a trip to the Yiddish Theatrical Alliance Block at Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, New York. Interview by Neil W. Levin and Robert Abelson. Milken Archive oral history excerpt.
Date: January 25, 1995
Credit: Milken Family Foundation
Abraham Goldfaden, Bessie Thomashefsky, Boris Thomashefsky, David Meyerowitz, Joseph Rumshinsky, Miriam Kressyn, Molly Picon, Seymour Rechtzeit, short documentary, theater, Yiddish
Great Songs of the Yiddish American Theater
Conversations with Seymour Rechtzeit
Dave Brubeck's The Gates of Justice
Jack Gottlieb's Psalmistry
David Schiff's Gimpel the Fool
Paul Schoenfield's The Merchant and the Pauper
Abraham Ellstein's The Golem
David Amram's The Final Ingredient
Dave Brubeck's The Commandments
The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music: An Overview
Klezmer Concertos and Encores
Joseph Achron's The Golem (Suite)
Joseph Achron's Violin Concerto no. 1
David Amram's Songs of the Soul
Samuel Adler's Nuptial Scene
Darius Milhaud's Études sur des thèmes liturgiques du Comtat Venaissin
Ofer Ben Amots's Celestial Dialogues
Marvin David Levy's Canto de los Marranos
Joel Hoffman's Self-Portrait with Gebirtig
Herman Berlinski's Avodat Shabbat
Landmark Recordings with the BBC Singers
Darius Milhaud's Service Sacré
Landmark Recordings with the Vienna Boys Choir
Herbert Fromm's Yemenite Cycle
Spotlight Series: Alberto Mizrahi
Ernst Toch's Cantata of the Bitter Herbs
Lukas Foss's Song of Anguish
Kurt Weill's The Eternal Road
Thomas Beveridge's Yizkor Requiem
Charles Davidson's A Singing of Angels
Pete Seeger and the Story of Tzena, Tzena, Tzena
Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service (Avodat Hakodesh)
Spotlight Series: Cantor Benzion Miller
Founder's Welcome
Lukas Foss: Elegy for Anne Frank
David Stock's A Little Miracle
Spotlight Series: Theodore Bikel
Spotlight Series: Ofer Ben-Amots