Anatevka (1971)

Anatevka: Directed by Norman Jewison. With Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon. In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

“I LOVE this musical but I weep a little always for the Yiddish culture lost forever. The world is so much poorer. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI apologise for straying from the artistic merit to linger on the loss to Humanityu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eNevertheless this film is a permanent record of the fact that we enjoyed a wondrous Yiddish culture in our midst in Europe but after a series of Pogroms culminating in the Holocaust the heart was ripped out of our culture here in Europeu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe music, the humour, the humanity, gone forever from the Heart of Europa. Europeu0026#39;s lossu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIrish Gentile”