Exclusive: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has struck its first deal for Yiddish programming including an oral history project with Leonard Nimoy.
The streamer will make documentary features and short films available via the partnership with the Yiddish Book Center, the Massachusetts-based non-profit dedicated to Yiddish literature and culture.
Starting today, ChaiFlicks will begin rolling out a variety of documentaries from the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project including Star Trek icon Nimoy’s oral Yiddish history. He was interviewed by Christa Whitney in 2013 and parts of his interview are in Yiddish and subtitled in English.
Other projects comprising the deal are about musicians Peter Sokolow and Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, as well as Yiddish writers Avrom Sutzkever, Solomon Simon, Ida Maze, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Alter Esselin.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Yiddish Book Center and continue their mission of disseminating and sharing the beauty of the rich...
The streamer will make documentary features and short films available via the partnership with the Yiddish Book Center, the Massachusetts-based non-profit dedicated to Yiddish literature and culture.
Starting today, ChaiFlicks will begin rolling out a variety of documentaries from the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project including Star Trek icon Nimoy’s oral Yiddish history. He was interviewed by Christa Whitney in 2013 and parts of his interview are in Yiddish and subtitled in English.
Other projects comprising the deal are about musicians Peter Sokolow and Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, as well as Yiddish writers Avrom Sutzkever, Solomon Simon, Ida Maze, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Alter Esselin.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Yiddish Book Center and continue their mission of disseminating and sharing the beauty of the rich...
- 5/29/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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