The City Without Jews (silent film with live music)
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (EDT)
Baruch Performing Arts Center,
Manhattan,
NY,
United States
$22.50 ($12.50 w/ Baruch ID)
- Alicia Svigals, klezmer violin
- Donald Sosin, piano
The newly restored 1924 German-Jewish silent film The City Without Jews is performed with live original music from klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals (who was a founding member of the Klezmatics) and pianist Donald Sosin. Based on the century-old best-selling novel by Hugo Bettauer, the film was a satire of something unimaginable at the time. It is darkly comedic, with eerily realistic sequences, such as the shots of freight trains transporting Jews out of the city.