links for today's Yiddish King Lear class

1935 U.S. Yiddish production directed by Harry Tomashevsky, funded by Works Project Administration: http://forward.com/articles/120500/yiddish-king-lear-on-the-relief-roll/
I believe a print of this film exists, restored by the
National Center for Jewish Film

Brandeis University, Lown 102, MS 053

Waltham, Massachusetts 02454

(781) 736-8600; ncjf@brandeis.edu

But I have not seen it.  If anyone wants to work on this for your final paper...?

Meanwhile: 1935 USSR Yiddish production with Solomon Mikhoels as Lear:
1971 USSR Russian production by Grigori Kozintsev borrows some of the iconography of the Mikhoels production: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH8fVqbUToc

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