American Matchmaker, from the archives of the National Center for Jewish Film DVD New Year Rashkin’s satiric novel offers a

Rashkin’s satiric novel offers a vivid cross-section not only of the residents’ triumphs and struggles but also of their dense and complicated web of humanity

It can even double as a coloring book

Yet by 1917 it was the dominant language of the Russian Jewish press

its remarkable insight into the meanings of Yiddish words and expressions

American Matchmaker, from the archives of the National Center for Jewish Film DVD New Year Rashkin’s satiric novel offers aRESTORED with complete new English Subtitles Leo Fuchs, known on Second Avenue as the Yiddish Fred Astaire, plays an elegant and eligible bachelor who can never seem to close the marriage deal. Edgar G. Ulmers last Yiddish movie was also his most modern, an art deco romantic comedy about male ambivalence and Jewish assimilation. With its urbane, neurotic hero, American Matchmaker looks ahead to the films of Woody Allen. USA, 1940, 87 minutes, B&W