New York Jewish Film Festival

[1] The Jewish Museum and The Film Society of Lincoln Center work in partnership to present the NYJFF every January.

The Festival has also featured sidebar presentations such as premieres of restored archival prints and screenings of rarely viewed films.

The festival also featured a sidebar presentation organized by the film critic and author J. Hoberman, which included clips from what he considers compelling Jewish horror movies, along with a screening of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 classic The Black Cat.

Max Nosseck), one of the first American feature films to dramatize the Holocaust, starring Moishe Oysher as a concentration camp survivor; and the 1930 Tevye (dir.

The 2010 Festival presented N.Y. premieres of restored prints of Falk Harnack's The Axe of Wandsbek (based on Arnold Zweig's novel) about a man who was a paid executioner for the Nazis; and Henry Lynn's classic 1935 Yiddish melodrama, Bar Mitzvah, which features vaudeville jokes, songs, and dancing, and stars actor Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance.