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An
Interview with Ida Kaminska
about the film,
"The Shop on Main Street"
by Studs Terkel
April 13, 1966
You can
listen to this fifty-minute interview by clicking
here.
Ida Kaminska speaks in
Yiddish, but in this radio interview her cousin
and the distinguished Yiddish actress Dinah Halpern
interprets for her.
Ida Kaminska was in
Chicago, as the film she was starring in was opening
there in a week.
"The Shop on Main Street," opened on April 22,
1966 at Chicago's Loop Theatre.
In the film, Ida plays Rozalia Lautmannová, a deaf,
Jewish storekeeper in a small Slovakian
town in 1942 that has become occupied by the Nazis.
A carpenter (Jozef Kroner)
in this Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan
controller" of this Jewish widow's store ... |
