Award-Winning Documentary ” The Komediant”

Mosaic Culture Hub and Mosaic Israel Group will be hosting the Filmmaker Oshra Schwartz for the showing of her award-winning documentary relating the glory days of the Yiddish stage brought to life in this funny saga of a legendary theatrical family, the Bursteins.  The patriarch, Pesach Burstein, who arrived in New York in 1924, met and married his love and with their children entertained on stage in America and across the globe.

Buy your ticket below.  £10 per person.

Komediant shows the family’s adventures across the 20th century, from the shtetls of Eastern Europe to Broadway.

Smoothly incorporating rare archival footage and interviews with Yiddish stage veterans, this tightly edited, briskly paced documentary is as richly bittersweet, filled with laughter and tears, schmaltz and grit, as the Yiddish theatre itself.

It is in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, with English subtitles.

After the screening, there will be a Q & A session about the film.

We will also hear of Oshra’s current involvement, post 7th October, with the Israeli Reform Movement and the devastated kibbutzim, including Kibbutz Re’im, our adopted project in Israel.

All profits from this event will go to Kibbutz Re’im.