The Yiddish Film Industry
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In Yidl Mitn Fidl, Picon's character disguises herself as a boy in order to escape an arranged marriage and perform with a band of klezmorim. With the exception of Picon, the rest of the cast was drawn from Warsaw's various theatrical ensembles. Here, Picon also cross-dresses to play the title character Shmendrik, a movie based on the 1877 operetta composd by the theater's founder, Avrom Goldfaden.
Actress Molly Picon (1898-1992) in Shmendrik; Rokhl Holzer in Al Khet; and Ida Kaminska as The Jazz Singer on the Polish-Yiddish stage
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