On Sunday at 7 PM Doc Films kicks off the season's most esoteric retrospective, a ten-film series of Yiddish-language films made between 1937 and 1940. Wittily titled "Schmaltzywood," the series focuses exclusively on U.S. productions, although Yiddish-language films were made in about a half-dozen countries, including Russia, Germany, and Poland.…
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