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| A Gesheft (The Deal) |
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| Directed by |
Yakov Kirsh |
| Produced by |
Mendel Kirsh |
| Editing by |
Roland Millman |
| Release date(s) |
2005 |
| Running time |
90 mins |
| Country |
United States |
| Language |
Yiddish |
| Budget |
$30,000 |
| Official website |
A Gesheft (Yiddish: א געשעפט, The Deal) is a 2005 action movie, with a religious message, in the Yiddish language, made by ultra-Orthodox Jews from Monsey, New York. It is the first movie made by ultra-Orthodox Jews entirely in Yiddish [1] and one of very few Yiddish films altogether since the destruction of most Yiddish-speaking communities by the Nazis. The movie has been marketed primarily to an Orthodox audience, not without some controversy. It has also drawn attention from less traditionalist Jews with an interest in Yiddish, since it is a document of contemporary spoken Yiddish.[2]
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- ^ . In Israel, there is somewhat of an ultra-Orthodox film industry; the language of choice for these films is apparently Israeli Hebrew, however. See "And God Created Women (Directors)" by Tamar Rotem, HaAretz, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo=881339
- ^ For example, it was screened at the 2006 Ashkenaz Festival in Toronto, a mostly secular celebration of klezmer music and Yiddish culture.
