Shir Hashirim (film)

1935 film

Shir Hashirim

Directed by| Henry Lynn
Based on|

Shir Hashirim

* Anshel Schorr
* Joseph Rumshinsky

Produced by| Henry Lynn
Starring| Samuel Goldenberg

Release date

* 1935 (1935)

Country| United States
Language| Yiddish

Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") is a 1935 lost Yiddish-language film.

## Cast

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* Samuel Goldenberg[1]
* Dora Weissman[1]
* Anna Toback[1]
* Mierele Gruber[1]

## Production and release

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The film is based on the Shir Hashirim ("Song of Songs") operetta by Joseph Rumshinsky and Anshel Schorr. The low-budget Yiddish talkie, directed by Henry Lynn, intersperses English-language titles with the spoken dialogue.[2] It was the first of six Yiddish films Lynn had been signed by the Empire Film Company to make.[1] Variety estimated that the film cost ten to fifteen thousand dollars to produce.[3]

The film premiered in October 1935 and has since been lost. It showed at New York's Acme Theatre in Union Square. Variety reported that the Acme's run lasted four days.[3]

## Reception

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Variety's Wolfe Kaufman, after disparaging the whole of Yiddish film, wrote that the film's director was unworthy of the job.[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e "Lynn's Yiddish Feature Finished In New York". The Hollywood Reporter. 29 (21): 4. September 23, 1935. ISSN 0018-3660. ProQuest 2297259085.
2. ^ Hoberman 1991, pp. 207–208.
3. ^ a b c Hoberman 1991, p. 208.

## Bibliography

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* Hoberman, J. (1991). Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds. Schocken Books. ISBN 978-0-8052-4107-5.

## Further reading

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* Kaufman, Wolfe (October 23, 1935). "Film Reviews: Shir Hashirim". Variety. Vol. 120, no. 6\. p. 13\. ISSN 0042-2738. ProQuest 1475931894.
* S., H. T. (1935). "At the Acme Theatre". New York Times. p. 31\. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 101370150.

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