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Song searcher / writer and director, Elena Yakovich ; producer, Dmitry Dulov.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: DVD-1450

Overview

Summary: "Moyshe Beregovsky, a musician and scholar, crisscrossed Ukraine with phonograph in hand during the most dramatic years of Soviet history in order to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry. His work began in the 1920's and led to his arrest and imprisonment in a Stalinist labor camp in 1950. Most of those he recorded on hundreds of fragile wax cylinders were shot by the Nazis and tossed into countless mass graves. Ultimately, Beregovsky succeeded in saving the musical heritage of the centuries-old Yiddish civilization. He rescued the Living Voice of his people from the flames of the Holocaust but paid for it with his life"--Container.
Uniform Title: Song searcher (Motion picture)
Format: Projected medium
Published: Los Angeles, California : Seventh Art Releasing, 2020
©2020
Locale: Ukraine
Other Authors/Editors: Yakovich, Elena, film director.
Dulov, Dmitry, film producer.
Seventh Art Releasing (Firm), publisher.
Notes: Original concept by Svetlana Dvoretskaya, Victorina Petrossyants, and Anna Shternshis

Video editor, Alexander Kryukov

Hershey Felder, Nikki Aaron, Sean Thomas, voiceover

Dialogue in Russian with English voiceover, and in English; some subtitles in English

Physical Details

Language: Russian English
Physical Description: 1 videodisc (82 minutes) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Jewish musicians--Ukraine--Biography. Jews--Ukraine--Music. Folk music--Ukraine. Folk songs, Yiddish--Ukraine. Jews--Ukraine--Social conditions--20th century. Holocaust victims--Ukraine. Juifs--Ukraine--Musique. Chansons folkloriques yiddish--Ukraine. Juifs--Ukraine--Conditions sociales--20e siècle. Victimes de l'Holocauste--Ukraine. Folk music. Folk songs, Yiddish. Holocaust victims. Jewish musicians. Jews. Jews--Social conditions. Ukraine. Documentary film. Biographical films. Biographies. Documentary films. Feature films. Music. Films biographiques. Documentaires. Video recordings. Beregovskiĭ, M.--(Moiseĭ),--1892-1961.

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