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God, Man and Devil Got, Mentsch un Taybl. USA, 1949, 100 minutes, B&W Yiddish with new English subtitles Directed by Joseph Seiden Based on the play by Jacob Gordin. RESTORED with complete new English Subtitles by The National Center for Jewish Film. Buy Now. Public Exhibition Formats: 16mm and Beta
God, Man and Devil: Directed by Joseph Seiden. With Michal Michalesko, Gustav Berger, Berta Gersten, Shifra Lerer. Based on a play by Jacob Gordin, God, Man and Devil centers on a wager between God and Satan that has dire consequences.
- Joseph Seiden
- 1950-01-21
- Drama
- 108
GOD, MAN AND DEVIL1, by Jacob Gordin. (Yiddish: Gott, mentsh un tayvl) “The theme of 'God, Man, and Devil,' Gordin's most famous play, is as old as the Fall of Man. It portrays the eternal struggle between God and Satan, the latter not the repulsive devil of popular belief, but the proud, haughty, unbending Spirit described by Milton in ...
A poor Torah scribe, Hershele Dubrovner, has a life that glorifies God until Satan, disguised as a business partner, turns him greedy and dishonest. Dubrovner's success destroys both his religion and his community leaving only betrayal and abandonment.
Jacob Gordin's "God, Man and Devil" already belongs to obsolete things. As a theme Gordin has taken the naiveté of certain people, who wonder when a poor man suddenly becomes rich, and this changes his relationships with his fellow man.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1j5db98.14. God, Man, and Devil is an anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation, plus two additional independent scenes, all written by well-known playwrights in the first quarter of the twentieth century.
An anthology of five Yiddish plays in translation—all written by well-known playwrights in the first quarter of the twentieth century—God, Man, and Devil also includes two independent scenes, which in Nahma Sandrow's words, "show off the raucous characteristic of Yiddish theater, especially in popular performance."
