Bel Canto Society Newsletter ---------- The Dybbuk Reduced for One Week Only ---------- The Dybbuk Liebgold, Liliana, Morewski, Samberg, Sirota; Wasznski, dir. Cantorial selection, songs. (1937). 121 m. Yiddish, with English subtitles. B&W. PCM audio. DVD Region 0 (all regions) or NTSC or PAL VHS. #D305 DVD: NOW $12.95 (ordinarily $18.95) VHS: NOW $9.95 (originally $29.95) Please use the link below to see a scene from this title. belcantosociety.org/store/product_info.php?products_id=165 The Dybbuk is poignant and sometimes mesmerizing. It rewards you with a mystical fervor and a layered emotionality that are rare in movies of any era. --The New Yorker It has an enthralling power and is magnificently acted. Here is a motion picture of spellbinding strangeness and extraordinary distinction. --International Herald Tribune Nothing Hollywood has done can compare with the seriousness of The Dybbuk. --Parker Tyler, Magic and Myth of the Movies I think it one of the most solemn attestations to the mystic powers of the spirit the imagination has ever purveyed to the film reel. --Parker Tyler, Classics of the Foreign Film By far the finest Yiddish film production ever offered here is Irving Geists impressive presentation of Anskys The Dybbuk. The Dybbuk should immediately be placed on the Must list of those who enjoy unusual and exceptional movies. The musical score by H. Kon is extremely beautiful--gay in the festival scenes, and stirring in the ritual songs rendered by chief cantor Gerson Sirota. No matter what your religion or nationality, we recommend The Dybbuk to you as a truly worthwhile screen achievement. --Irene Thirer, New York Post, January 27, 1938 We accept and we find in the screen version of The Dybbuk one of the most moving pieces of drama that we ever want to see. --Herbert Cohn, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, January 29, 1938 When Caruso heard Sirota sing Celeste Aïda in a concert, he reportedly thanked God the cantor had chosen to employ his heavenly gift in a different field. Sirota, born in Russia in 1874, officiated as cantor in Odessa, Vilna and Warsaw. He made cantorial recordings, beginning in 1903. From 1927-35, he sang concerts throughout Europe and in the U.S. He and his family perished in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. In this film he is heard for a few minutes. The Dybbuk was filmed on location in Kazimierz, Poland, and in a Warsaw studio, in 1937. --Stefan Zucker Kazimierz was historically perfect. It even had a small cemetery. The Jewish population, or almost all of it, had something to do with The Dybbuk, appearing in its mass scenes. --Leon Liebgold, The Dybbuks male lead, interviewed in The New York Times, September 10, 1989 Sirota was one of the most highly trained cantors of all time. His octave leaps, perfect three-note runs up the scale, fabulous trills, facile coloratura, are unrivaled by any other recording tenor. --Arthur E. Knight, The Record Collector The Dybbuk is the most widely produced play in the history of Jewish theater. It has been performed in Yiddish, Hebrew, German, Polish, English, Ukranian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Czech, Serbian, French and Japanese. --------------------------------------------- To see all our downloads, please use this link: belcantosociety.org/store/index.php?cPath=27 To see all our products, please use this link: belcantosociety.org/store/all_products.php To contribute to Bel Canto Society: belcantosociety.org/store/index.php?cPath=30 --------------------------------------------- Bel Canto Society, a not-for-profit corporation, offers more than 400 opera videos, CDs, DVDs, books, downloads and webcasts on its website. Our homepage is BelCantoSociety.org. Telephone orders: 1-800-347-5056 (North America) 212-877-5813 (international) 7 AM-3 PM New York time, Monday-Thursday 7 AM-12 PM Friday Fax orders: 212-877-2792
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