Full Description
What happened to Yiddish - mama loshen (mother tongue) - after World War II? Yiddish speakers who went to Israel originally found animosity from Zionists who asserted Hebrew as the national language. Yiddish speakers were even prohibited from publishing a daily newspaper. But Yiddish persevered, and, oddly enough, secular Yiddish culture is thriving among a quarter-million people in Israel today. ZOLL ZEYN features poetry and literature, cabarets and theatre actors, musicians, political activists, academics, and, most of all, wonderful Yiddish humor. This film is like a great shmooze with a colorful assortment of intellectuals, individualists, and comedians.
