of a North African Jew who brings his family to
settle in 1949 Israel.

They Were Ten 1961. Directed by Baruch Di-
enar. With Ninette, Oded Teomi. Ten Soviet Jews
make their home in 1800s Palestine.

Unsettled Land 1988. Directed by Uri Barbash.
With Kelly McGillis, John Shea. Young settlers
trying to live in 1920s Palestine.

JEWISH LIFE

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz 1974.
Directed by Ted Kotacheff. With Richard Dreyfuss,
Randy Quaid, Denholm Elliott. Adapting a screen-
play from his own novel, Mordecai Richter depicts
a young Jewish man in Montreal and his attempts
at becoming a "somebody." See also Joshua Then
and Now.

Assisi Underground 1984. Directed by Alexan-
der Ramati. With James Mason, Ben Cross, Max-
imilian Schell, Irene Papas. True story of the
Catholic Church's rescue of several hundred Ital-
ian Jews from Nazi persecution.

Avalon 1990. Directed by Barry Levinson. With
Armin Mueller-Stahl, Aidan Quinn. Drama of an
immigrant's life in Baltimore and the changes to
his family the years bring.

Biloxi Blues 1988. Directed by Mike Nichols. With
Matthew Broderick, Christopher Walken. A con-
tinuation of Neil Simon's character introduced in
Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Brighton Beach Memoirs 1986. Directed by
Gene Salks. With Jonathan Silverman, Blythe
Danner. Based on Neil Simon's autobiographical
play of two families sharing a roof in 1937 Brook-
lyn.

Chariots of Fire 1981. Directed by Hugh Hud-
son. With Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nigel Havers,
Ian Holm. True story of two men who ran in the
1924 Olympics: one a Jewish stu-
dent, the other a Scottish mis-
sionary.

Frisco Kid 1979. Directed by Robert Aldrich. With
Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri. A com-
edy of an Orthodox rabbi from Poland who meets
up with a thieving cowboy when sent to his new
synagogue in 1850s San Francisco.

Kotcheff. With James Woods, Alan Arkin. Based
on Mordecai Richter's autobiographical novel, made
for TV film tells the story of a Jewish writer who
marries into a WASPy family. See also The Ap-
prenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

Funny Girl 1968. Directed by William Wyler.
With Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Walter Pid-
geon. The rise of comedian Fanny Brice and
Streisand's film debut. See Funny Lady.

Lies My Father Told Me 1975. Directed by Jan
Kadar. With Yossi Yadin, Len Birman. Quiet sto-
ry of a young boy's relationship with his grandfa-
ther in a 1920s Jewish ghetto.

Funny Lady 1975. Direct-
ed by Herbert Ross. With Bar-
bra Streisand, Omar Sharif,
James Caan, Roddy McDow-
ell. The sequel to Funny Girl:
Brice's marriage to Billy Rose.

Martha and I 1991. Directed by Jiri Weiss. With
Marianne Sagebrecht, Michel Piccoli. Semi-auto-
biographical account of the director's childhood,
the story of a Jewish doctor in the '30s who divorces
his unfaithful wife and marries his gentile maid.

The Chosen 1981. Directed by Je-
remy Paul Kagan. With Robby
Benson, Barry Miller, Maximilian
Schell, Rod Steiger, Ron Rifkin.
Based on the novel by Chaim Po-
tok, the story of a friendship be-
tween two boys — one Chasidic,
one the son of a Zionist professor
— in 1940s Brooklyn.

Crossing Delancey 1988. Di-
rected by Joan Micklin Silver. With
Amy Irving, Reizl Bozyk, Sylvia
Miles, Peter Riegert. Susan San-
dler's adaptation of her play of the
same name. Modern-day fairy tale
of a young woman caught between
the old world of her bUbbie and the
new world of her New York life.

Enemies, A Love Story 1989. Directed by Paul
Mazursky. With Ron Silver, Lena Olin, Anjelica
Huston, Alan King and lots more. Award-winning
adaptation of the novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer.
A Coney Island Jew can't decide between his wife,
his lover and his presumed-dead pre-war wife.

Fiddler on the Roof 1971. Directed by Norman
Jewison. With Chaim Topol, Norma Crane. The
favorite musical based on stories by Sholem Ale-
ichem.

Goodbye Columbus 1969.
Directed by Larry Peerce.
ci With Richard Benjamin, All
.1) MacGraw, Jack Klugman.
Based on the story by Philip
,E-1- Roth. A young librarian has
an affair with the daughter of
a nouveau riche family in the
'60s.

z

Miss Rose White1992. Directed by Joseph Sar-
gent. With Kyra Sedgwick, Amanda Plummer,
Maximilian Schell. Made for TV, based on the play
A Shanyna Maidel by Barbara Lebow. Post-war
immigrant girl struggles to leave her past behind
her.

Hester Street1975. Direct-

Outside Chance of Maximillian Glick 1988.
Directed by Allan Goldstein. With Noam Zylber-
man, Fairuza Balk, Saul Rubinek. Canadian-made
comedy about a boy and his tradition-bound Jew-
ish family.

migrant leaves her home to
New York City to be with her husband — who is
abandoning his Old World ideals.

Over the Brooklyn Bridge 1983. Directed by
Menahem Golan. With Elliott Gould, Sid Caesar,
Shelley Winters, Margaux Hemingway, Carol
Kane. Young Jewish man must give up his non-
Jewish girlfriend for his uncle to loan him money.

o y_ With
Carol Kane, Doris
Roberts. A young Jewish im-

8 ed by Joan Micklin Silver.

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The Jazz Singer 1927. Directed by Alan Crosland.
With Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Myrna Loy. The first
successful part-talkie. A cantor's son abandons his
religion to be a pop musician.

The Jazz Singer 1980. Directed by Richard Fleis-
cher. With Neil Diamond, Laurence Oliviet Lucie
Arnaz. Remake of the 1927 classic.

Joshua Then and Now 1985. Directed by Ted

The Quarrel 1993. Directed by Eli Cohen. With
Saul Rubinek, R.H. Thomson. Based on a story by
Chaim Grade, A New York poet visiting Montre-
al in 1948 rediscovers a friend he lost touch with
during the war.

Radio Days 1987. Directed by Woody Allen. With
Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Julie Kavner, Diane
Keaton and lots more. A remembrance of the pre-

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Opposite page: Eli
Wallach and John
Shea in The
Impossible Spy, a
made-for-cable true
story of an Israeli
spy.

Above: Gregory Peck
and Celeste Holm in

Gentleman's
Agreement—the

first Hollywood film
to attack anti-
Semitism. Jewish
actor John Garfield,
center, plays a
Jewish GI.

Left: Al Jolson plays
a cantor's son in the
1927 version of The

Jazz Singer.

Entertainment cover:
Ladies' Tailor (for
description, see Part
II of "Fast Forward"
in next week's JN
Entertainment.

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