Joseph Seiden
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Comment: Please add the biography. There are refs that probably give it. DGG ( talk ) 05:56, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
- I'm sorry User:DGG but I'm not aware of what biography you're referring to and didn't see one searching for it on Google and elsewhere. FloridaArmy (talk) 07:48, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
Joseph Seiden (1892–1974)[1] was a filmmaker in New York City. He directed and produced numerous Yiddish films. He also directed Paradise in Harlem, a 1940 musical film with an African American cast.
Seiden amassed a collection of 40 Yiddish films which passed onto another collector, restorer, and distributor.[2] The Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote about him and his filmmaking in 1936.[3]
His 1949 film God, Man & Devil was re-released on video in 1991.[4]
His independent films were low-budget sentimental affairs.[5]
Filmography
- Yiddish Mama (Mine Yiddishe Mame) (1930)[6]
- Paradise in Harlem (1940)[7]
- Motl the Operator (1940)
- Eli Eli (1940),[8] producer[9]
- Living Orphan (Lebediker Yosem) (1937), director, about Jewish immigrants in New York City in the 1930s.[10]
- Mazel Tov Yidden (1941), director[10]
- God, Man and Devil (1949), director, about a man who makes a deal with the devil, the Yiddish film brings "Faust to the Shtetl" accompanied by fiddle music[10]
- The Greater Advisor[11]
References
- ^ "Joseph Seiden (1892-1974)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2021-01-06.
- ^ "Sharon Pucker Rivo". Hadassah Magazine. December 5, 2015.
- ^ Goldberg, Judith N. (November 30, 1983). Laughter Through Tears: The Yiddish Cinema. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 9780838630747 – via Google Books.
- ^ Bowker's Complete Video Directory 2000. R.R. Bowker. November 30, 2000. ISBN 9780835243087 – via Google Books.
- ^ Koszarski, Richard (27 August 2008). Hollywood on the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. ISBN 9780813545523.
- ^ Manchel, Frank (November 30, 1990). Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. ISBN 9780838631867 – via Google Books.
- ^ Torriano Berry, S.; Berry, Venise T. (26 January 2007). Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema - S. Torriano Berry, Venise T. Berry - Google Books. ISBN 9780810864641.
- ^ "The New Yorker". November 1991.
- ^ Anklewicz, Larry (November 30, 2000). Guide to Jewish Films on Video. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 9780881256055 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b c "Joseph Seiden | Jewish Music Research Centre". www.jewish-music.huji.ac.il.
- ^ Nash, Jay Robert; Ross, Stanley Ralph (November 30, 1985). "The Motion Picture Guide". Cinebooks – via Google Books.