The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden), H. K. Breslauer’s 1924 silent film masterpiece, is the tragicomic story of the fictional Austrian city of Utopia, which becomes a dystopia when it expels its diverse and thriving Jewish population. Featuring ominous and eerily realistic sequences, such as shots of freight trains transporting Jews out of the city, its stinging critique of Nazism is part of why it was not screened in public after 1933. The film has been newly restored with an original score by master silent film pianist Donald Sosin and violinist Alicia Svigals, the world’s foremost exponent of the klezmer fiddle. They will perform their score live to accompany the film.

Performance underwritten by the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts.