A Brivele Der Mamen = A Letter to Mama
Barcode: 58957901
Call Number: International Jewry
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 100 min.
Date: 1938
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Yiddish
Creator: Directed by Joseph Green
Description: Set in the Polish Ukraine and New York City at the time of the First World War, the film traces the break-up of a family due to stress, poverty, the chaos of war and the difficulties of immigrant life. The last Yiddish movie to be produced in Warsaw, this delightfully sentimental and moving story focuses on one Jewish mother’s efforts to keep her family together.
Subjects: International Jewry, Yiddish, Shtetl,
Collection: Martin Salinger Resource Collection