Jacob Gordin

Birth : , Myrhorod, Ukraine

Movies

God, Man and Devil
Theatre Play
Mirele Efros
Theatre Play
Mirele Efros, "the Jewish Queen Lear," was the masterpiece of Ukrainian-born Jacob Gordin, an enormously influential Yiddish playwright whose works sought to describe and promulgate the ethos of mentshlekhkeyt: the practice of honesty, decency, and devotion toward family and community. This sophisticated version of his stage classic faithfully recreates Jewish life in turn-of-the-century Grodno, Poland.
Without a Home
Writer
The last Yiddish feature made in Poland before WWII, this 1939 film is based on a 1907 play by the prolific playwright Jacob Gordin.
The Yiddish King Lear
Theatre Play
Setting off from Vilna to spend his last days in the Holy Land, an arrogant old man spurns the youngest of his three daughters and leaves his fortune in the wrong hands.
Kreutzer Sonata
Theatre Play
Based -- loosely -- on Leo Tolstoy, this film starred feted stage star Nance O'Neil but is rather better remembered as Theda Bara's follow-up to the sensational A Fool There Was (1914).
The Slaughter
Theatre Play
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
The Stepmother
Theatre Play
Directed by Abraham Izaak Kaminski.
Der Umbakanter
Writer
Directed by Nahum Lipowski.
Mirele Efros
Theatre Play
Directed by Andrzej Marek.
The Savage One
Theatre Play
Adaptation of the Jacob Gordin play.