ROME (JTA) – A documentary film about a Polish-Jewish filmmaker has won an award at the Venice Film Festival. The Polish-German co-production, “The Prince and the Dybbuk,” by Elwira Niewiera and Piotr ...

Before her Jewish father died in Polish police custody in 1961, director Agnieszka Holland saw the legendary 1937 Yiddish film, “The Dybbuk,” based on S. Ansky’s play. Decades later, she remembered ...

Venice, Italy — Wide House (“I am Not Your Negro”) has acquired international sales to Elwira Niewiera & Piotr Rosolowski’s “The Prince and the Dybbuk,” a documentary that will world premiere in the ...

When my father was a middle school kid at the Yeshiva of Hartford, his preoccupations were relatively simple: He imagined being one of the few great Jewish baseball stars, and thought a lot about ...

(JTA) — Two important cultural institutions that celebrate the mamaloshen — the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene and the Congress for Jewish Culture — are each offering an online gift for Hanukkah.

In Jewish lore, a “dybbuk” is the soul of someone who dies without fulfilling his destiny; to earn eternal rest, the soul must return to earth and find fulfillment in the body of somebody else. The ...

They call it the Factory. There are no assembly lines, just the chaos of a thrift shop filled with mismatched sofas, lamps with no shades, a stack of backless theater seats, mirrored pillars, dust ...