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Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival March 27 - April 5, 1992. Broadcast over PBS on "American Playhouse" November 29, 1993. Film dedicated to the memory of Chaim Grade and Wolfe Kelman. Released in United States November 4, 1992 (Film Forum; New York City) Released in United States August 1991 (Shown at Edinburgh International ...
- Eli Cohen
- Saul Rubinek
Chaim Grade was born in Vilna, the Jerusalem of Lithuania, in 1910 and died in what for him was exile, in New York City, in 1982. His father was a maskil, a moderately enlightened Jew who studied the Bible with Moses Mendelssohn’s commentary, and his mother was a pious woman who recited tekhines and read the Tsena-Urena (Yiddish prayers and homilies on the Chumash for women).
Chaim Grade (1910-1982): Some Thoughts About the Yiddish Novelist (Podcast Episode 2023) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Nov 4, 1992 · "The Quarrel," Eli Cohen's film adaptation of a short story by the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade, is commendable simply for having the temerity to grapple with serious ideas in a form not usually ...
- Stephen Holden
- Eli Cohen
Dec 16, 2020 · The fiery text jumps off the page, so to bring you the full drama of Grade’s great quarrel, we ’ve put together a staged performance of the story, using Wisse’s new translation as a script, and featuring two incredible actors, Michael Cuomo as Chaim Vilner and Christopher Tocco as Hersh Rasseyner himself.
Nov 5, 1992 · Montreal 1948. On Rosh Hashanah, Chaim (a Yiddish writer) is forced to think of his religion when he’s asked to be the tenth in a minyan. As he sits in the park, he suddenly sees an old friend whom he hasn’t seen since they quarrelled when they were yeshiva students together. Hersh, a rabbi, survived Auschwitz and his faith was strengthened by his ordeal, while Chaim escaped the Nazis, but ...
CHAIM GRADE (1910–1982) is “one of the 20th century’s pre-eminent writers of Yiddish fiction” (The New York Times). Born in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, Grade fled to New York in 1948, after losing his first wife and his mother to the Holocaust. With his second wife, Inna, he lived in the Bronx for the remainder of his life. Grade is the author of numerous works of poetry and prose ...
