https://mrqe.com Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:28:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/the-singing-blacksmith-m100006302/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-singing-blacksmith-m100006302/ Moishe Oysher, the renowned cantor and star of Yiddish radio, stars in Edgar G. Ulmers musical version of David Pinskis play Yankl der Shmid. Singing, dancing, and flashing his eyes, Oysher gives his most robust performance as a passionate shtetl blacksmith who must struggle against temptation to become a mensch. Recently rediscovered footage makes this the most complete extant version of Ulmers lively folk operetta, replete with an example of Yiddish swing.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/the-cantors-son-m100043841/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-cantors-son-m100043841/ This musical drama marks the screen debut of Moishe Oysher, in a film critic J. Hoberman calls an “anti-Jazz Singer.” Oysher stars as a wayward youth who makes his way from his Polish shtetl to New York’s Lower East Side where he is “discovered” and becomes a well-known singer. Ultimately, he returns home to the Old Country and reunites with his parents and his childhood sweetheart.

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