Welcome to Yiddishland
Dir. Ros Horin, Documentary, 96 min.
Welcome to Yiddishland – a place with no borders where progressive artists create provocative new works in an ancient endangered language that speaks to our times. Bringing fresh performances and insights into the creative world of Yiddish language’s cultural renaissance, Welcome to Yiddishland presents a lively, upbeat, entertaining, empowered and inclusive depiction of “Jewishness.” The film follows following artists from around the world across numerous disciplines as they reignite a dying language and use this mother tongue in music, theater, opera and literature. From behind-the-scenes with an acclaimed Yiddish-language version of Yentl to enjoyably transgressive punk-Klezmer musicians—the endangered Yiddish language is alive and well, experiencing something of a global cultural renaissance.
The film features amazing performances by Jewish music makers and Yiddish mavens. I feel sure that you’ll hear artists both familiar and new to you.