palm beach international film festival
documentary
World Premiere
Klezmer on Fish Street

Country of Origin: USA
Language: English/Polish/Yiddish/German
Running Time: 86:36 minutes
Director: Yale Strom
Producer(s): Elizabeth Schwartz
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When you travel to Krakow, Poland, you can stay in the former Jewish Quarter of Kazimiercz, at a Jewish inn. You will wake up to a kosher-style breakfast. You will take the "Schindler's List" tour. You will return for a kosher style lunch, and then take the bus to Auschwitz-Birkenau. You will end your day with a kosher dinner, followed by a klezmer concert...yet you will not have met a Polish Jew. Klezmer on Fish Street explores the deeper more significant theme of what constitutes Jewish renewal in this environment. Is this reality or just "virtual Jewish reality"? What motivates Polish non-Jews to promote Yiddishkayt? What are the valid reactions among Jews about this subject? Who encourages it, and who is outraged and why?


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