Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Duck Soup The Marx Brothers' Duck Soup, starring Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly, the unlikely head of the state of Freedonia is a 69-minute assault on war and government in general. Released just as FDR […]

Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Brighton Beach Rediscovered and recently restored, Brighton Beach offers a portrait of the Brooklyn neighborhood that includes Coney Island and came to be known as “Little Odessa” for its large population of Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants. […]

Jacob Burns Jewish Film Festival: Breaking Ties Long thought to be a lost film, Breaking Home Ties was one of a handful of feature films made in the 1920s to portray everyday Jewish life in the U.S. Set in New York, […]