Pierre Sauvage
Pierre set about finding every leading expert at the time, and, tellingly, used the music of a new group called Klezmorim – the world’s first klezmer revival band, widely credited with spearheading the global renaissance of klezmer in the ’80s. Little did Pierre know how prescient his documentary would be.
Today, more than 40 years after the film was made, we have the unique opportunity to view this time capsule and to discuss the surprising evolution of Yiddish with current leading lights.
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Yiddish: The Mother Tongue” is part of our retrospective tribute to Pierre Sauvage on the occasion of his remastered re-release of 1989’s Holocaust hallmark, “