Broken Barriers (1919 film) explained

Broken Barriers - A Love Drama of the Ukraine
Director:	Charles E. Davenport
Producer:	Jules Burnstein
Distributor:	Zion Films Inc., Leopold Khelmann (father of Hannah)
Country:	United States
Language:	Yiddish Russian

Broken Barriers, also known as Khava (Yiddish: חוה) is a 1919 American Yiddish silent film, based on author Sholem Aleichem's stock character Tevye the Dairyman.

Cast

• Alice Hastings – Khava (Chava)
• Alexander Tenenholtz – Fedka (Fyedka)
• Giacomo Masuroff – Tobias (Tevye)
• Billie Wilson – Khava's Mother (Golde)
• Sonia Radin – Parasha
• Ivan, Fedka's Father
• Hanna (Ganna Kehlmann) Kay – Khavah's Sister (Tzeitel)
• Raymond (John Raymond) Friedgen – Fedka's chum (friend)

Release and restoration

Long thought to be a lost film, an original copy was donated to the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University for restoration by a descendant of one of the actors.^[1] The same story was the basis of the 1964 stage musical Fiddler on the Roof and its 1971 film version, though the fate of Khava in the ending had been altered.

See also

• List of rediscovered films

External links

• • Thomas Pryor, A Ukrainian Village Is Erected on a Long Island Farm for a Yiddish Film Drama, The New York Times, July 30, 1939.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Broken Barriers (1919) . IMDb . 2018-07-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161125045642/http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0187757/ . 2016-11-25 . dead .