Ritz Theatre: Without a Home (Movie Poster)

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One of the first Yiddish talking movies - An Entertaining Piece of Jewish Americana(MOVIE POSTER) Ritz Theatre. Without a Home, Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula’s Daughter. New York City: circa 1940. Three color poster in English and Yiddish. Measures 21 inches x 29 inches. Some cracking on bottom with amateur tape repairs on verso, otherwise Good condition.ONE OF THE EARLIEST YIDDISH TALKING MOVIES WITH ENGLISH SUB-TITLES IN THE UNITED STATESWithout a Home (On a Heym). Poland 1939. 88 minutes. B&W Yiddish with new English subtitles. Director: Alexander Martin. An Adolph Mann Production. Songs by Szajewiez. Cinematography: Jonil Owicz. Adapted from a stage play by Jacob Gordin. Cast: Ida Kaminska, Alexander Martin, Dzigan and Schumacher.The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film was based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin. Best known for his folksy didacticism and moralism, Gordin brought the common life of the Lower East Side to the Yiddish stage. Without a Home is the story of the separation and hardships faced by immigrants in America at the turn of the century. It is intended by Gordin to symbolize the uprooted Jewish immigrant family and by extension, the Jewish people, was a particularly poignant one for Jewish film audiences in Poland on the eve of WW II. The film underscored the growing sense among Polish Jews facing the Nazi threat and increasing anti-Semitism in Poland that they too might soon be “without a home.” (From The National Center for Jewish Film) The Ritz Theatre at 180th Street and Boston Road in the Bronx opened in 1927 and later became The Yiddish Art Theatre due to the heavy concentration of Yiddish speakers in the area.

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