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Song Searcher Movie - Jewish Film Festival Vienna 2021Please join us for Song Searcher Movie screening at Village Cinema Wien Mitte on October 13 at 20:00
This film is the story of a man’s lifelong search for authentic Yiddish folk music and of his unique archive, which was presumed to be lost forever. Moyshe Beregovsky, a musician and scholar, crisscrossed Ukraine with phonograph in hand during the most dramatic years of Soviet history in order to record and study the traditional music of Ukrainian Jewry. His work began in the 1920’s and led to his arrest and imprisonment in a Stalinist labor camp in 1950. Most of those he recorded on hundreds of fragile wax cylinders were shot by the Nazis and tossed into countless mass graves. Ultimately, Beregovsky succeeded in saving the musical heritage of the centuries-old Yiddish civilization. He rescued the Living Voice of his people from the flames of the Holocaust but paid for it with his life
Tickets available:
https://www.jfw.at/song-searcher
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Village Cinema Wien Mitte, Landstraßer Hauptstraße 2a, 1030 Wien, Austria, Wien