Man without a World Cine-concert with Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin (New York Klezmer Series)

New York Klezmer Series "Klezmer in the Kitchen", at the AMT Theater, 354 W.45th St. NYC, New York, NY

A screening of a fascinating film with original live music by Svigals and Sosin. THE MAN WITHOUT A WORLD is a moving, comic melodrama set in a typical shtetl (village) in Poland. The Jews’ struggle against poverty and racial hatred is complicated by their own division into hostile political factions of the religious orthodoxy, assimilationists, socialists, Zionists, anarchists and survivors. While the Jews of the shtetl pursue their loves, politics, religion, business and dreams for the future, the Angel of Death is ever near…

A New York Klezmer Series event