Auction 35 · Lot 322
Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt in “The Dream of My People” (Der Cholem fun Mein Folk). The first musical-picture made in the Holy Land.
- Estimate
- $1,200–$1,800
- Hammer price
- $1,900
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
YIDDISH POSTER.
Place
New York, 1933-4.
summary
“The Dream of My People” was filmed on location at the Western Wall, Rachel’s Tomb, the Cave of Machpelah and in the Jordan River. “Yossele,” as he was known to the Jewish, died of heart failure aged 51 during the film’s production. See the memoir by his son Samuel Rosenblatt, Yossele Rosenblatt (1954) pp. 338, 350-1, 356.