Genius from a Shtetl
Grigori Ilugdin’s Russian-Yiddish film Genius from the Shtetl, a documentary about the famous sculptor Mark Antokolsky, is now publicly available online with English subtitles. It contains several 3D-animated scenes in Antokolsky’s native Lithuanian dialect of Yiddish. The director expresses his deep gratitude to the Heritage Projects Foundation (USA) and Yiddish Heritage Preservation Foundation (Israel) who supported the documentary.
Ilugdin wishes all the best to our website and other projects supported by the same two foundations. The film successfully premiered on TV. The Yiddish-oriented Birobidzhan-based channel Bira TV recently broadcast a talk (in Russian) with our website’s editor-in-chief Yoel Matveyev who translated the documentary’s dialogs into Yiddish and organized their audio recordings.
We are also planning to start very soon a new section on our website dedicated to Yiddish and Yiddish-related films. Stay tuned with our news!