Singing in the Dark

Singing in the Dark is a 1956 blackandwhite motion picture about a Holocaust survivor suffering from total amnesia who comes to the United States. It stars Yiddish language film actor Moishe Oysher in his only Englishlanguage film performance, and comedian Joey Adams born Joseph Abramowitz, and was directed by the silent film director Max Nosseck.

In one crucial scene in the movie, Leo imagines himself ascending the bema of a ruined synagogue in Europe, singing the ancient Jewish prayer El male rachamim in memory of all the Jews who died in the Holocaust. By actually returning to the synagogue as a cantor, the film shows how he is restoring the sacred music of a vanquished culture to a living Jewish community.The National Center for Jewish Film notes that this important and virtually unknown independent film is one of the first American movies to focus on the Holocaust. It is one of the films featured in the 2004 documentary Imaginary Witness Hollywood and the Holocaust. ........

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