Max Vodnoy – MRQE https://mrqe.com Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:54:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png Max Vodnoy – MRQE https://mrqe.com 32 32 The Singing Blacksmith 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.

]]> Green Fields https://mrqe.com/movie/green-fields-m100015959/ Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/green-fields-m100015959/ Ulmer’s soulful, open-air adaptation of Peretz Hirshbein’s classic play heralded the Golden Age of Yiddish cinema. When an ascetic young scholar ventures into the countryside, searching for the city of “true Jews,” he learns some unexpected lessons from the Jewish peasants who take him in as a tutor for their children.

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