''Shir Hashirim'' ("Song of Songs") is a 1935 lost

Yiddish-language Yiddish, historically Judeo-German, is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated in 9th-century Central Europe, and provided the nascent Ashkenazi community with a vernacular based on High German fused with ...

film.

Cast

* Samuel Goldenberg * Dora Weissman * Anna Toback * Mierele Gruber

Production and release

The film is based on the ''Shir Hashirim'' ("Song of Songs")

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and

Anshel Schorr Anshel Schorr (; October 25, 1871 – May 31, 1942), also known by the anglicized name Albert Schorr, was an Austrian-born American playwright, lyricist, theater manager and composer active in the Yiddish Theatre of the early twentieth century. ...

. The low-budget Yiddish

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, directed by

Henry Lynn Henry Lynn (July 21, 1895 – August 25, 1984) was a film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer, who concentrated on Yiddish life and culture in the United States in the years 1932–1939, the era of Yiddish film in America. Lynn w ...

, intersperses English-language titles with the spoken dialogue. It was the first of six Yiddish films Lynn had been signed by the Empire Film Company to make. ''

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'' estimated that the film cost ten to fifteen thousand dollars to produce. The film premiered in October 1935 and has since been lost. It showed at New York's Acme Theatre in Union Square. ''Variety'' reported that the Acme's run lasted four days.

Reception

''Variety'' Wolfe Kaufman, after disparaging the whole of Yiddish film, wrote that the film's director was unworthy of the job.

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