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This short film features Louis "Leibele"
Waldman playing three different parts: an old-world Eastern
European then a German auditioning to be the synagogue
cantor. Displeased with what they've heard and unable to
agree, the synagogue committee is visited by Leibele's agent
who offers them a third alternative: a modern and American
Chazan, with "pep and jazz," who can do Kol Nidre with a
"two-step" and Unetaneh Tokef with a "black bottom."
Waldman was said to be the only cantor
who was under contract to make Yiddish films, that is, until
Moishe Oysher, who then starred in the film, "The Cantor's
Son."
-- Jewish Music Research Centre |
