Isaac in America: A Journey With Isaac Bashevis Singer
(1986)
58 mins | Documentary | 3 December 1986
Director:
Amram NowakProducer:
Kirk SimonCinematographers:
Jerry Pantzer, Brian Kellerman, Kirk Simon, Burleigh Wartes, Greg AndrackeEditor:
Riva FreifeldProduction Designer:
Marlene MartaProduction Company:
Amram Nowak AssociatesThe film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary (Feature) for the year 1986. The film also received a CINE (Council on International Nontheatrical Events) Golden Eagle award at the Montreal Film Festival in Aug 1986, and received a 1st Silver Sesterce at the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival in Switzerland in Oct 1986.
The film was first broadcast ov the Public Television Service (PBS) on 6 Jul 1987.
End credits cite the story "A Day In Coney Island" as being from the Isaac Bashevis Singer short story collection A Crown of Feathers.
End credits also acknowledge: "Photographs reproduced courtesy of: Brooklyn Public Library; Municipal Archives of the City of New York; Museum of the City of New York; YIVO Institute; AT&T Corporate Archive," and, "Illustrations From: 'The Illustrated Edition of the Kabbalah by Saul Raskin.'" "Special Thanks" are also given to: "Alma Singer; Devorah Menashe; Rosalind Schwartz and Lucjan Dobroszycki of the YIVO Institute; The Seagate Association"
The following notice also appears in end credits: "This program was made possible by grants from: The Lemberg Foundation; The National Endowment for the Humanities; The National Endowment for the Arts In Association with WNET/13 and The ASDA Foundation, Consultin Producer for the ASDA Foundation: Muriel Peters." ...
The film was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Documentary (Feature) for the year 1986. The film also received a CINE (Council on International Nontheatrical Events) Golden Eagle award at the Montreal Film Festival in Aug 1986, and received a 1st Silver Sesterce at the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival in Switzerland in Oct 1986.
The film was first broadcast ov the Public Television Service (PBS) on 6 Jul 1987.
End credits cite the story "A Day In Coney Island" as being from the Isaac Bashevis Singer short story collection A Crown of Feathers.
End credits also acknowledge: "Photographs reproduced courtesy of: Brooklyn Public Library; Municipal Archives of the City of New York; Museum of the City of New York; YIVO Institute; AT&T Corporate Archive," and, "Illustrations From: 'The Illustrated Edition of the Kabbalah by Saul Raskin.'" "Special Thanks" are also given to: "Alma Singer; Devorah Menashe; Rosalind Schwartz and Lucjan Dobroszycki of the YIVO Institute; The Seagate Association"
The following notice also appears in end credits: "This program was made possible by grants from: The Lemberg Foundation; The National Endowment for the Humanities; The National Endowment for the Arts In Association with WNET/13 and The ASDA Foundation, Consultin Producer for the ASDA Foundation: Muriel Peters."
A portrait in words and pictures of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, who came to the U.S. from Poland in 1935 to avoid growing Nazi persecution of Jews. Singer first settled in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, and began writing in Yiddish for the Jewish newspaper, The Forward. ...
A portrait in words and pictures of Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991), winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature, who came to the U.S. from Poland in 1935 to avoid growing Nazi persecution of Jews. Singer first settled in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, and began writing in Yiddish for the Jewish newspaper, The Forward.
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