The first truly international Yiddish hit. Molly Picon's vaudeville antics are backed bysome of the most enchanting music of any Yiddish film, in the tale ofitinerant klezmorim and the girl (Molly at 37!) who disguises herself asa boy to join them. The plot takes them through countryside to town andthe Warsaw stage, even to Second Avenue, New York, and is not withoutromance nor a feminist touch: Yiddle gets it all, her man and a musicalcareer. The film "offers a still-fresh collection of Picon'scharacterizations and routines-ranging from the tipsy yeshive boy to theoverexcited chatterbox to the pert gamine." (J. Hoberman) JosephGreen filmed on location in Warsaw and Kazimierz (where he employedshtetl inhabitants as extras) and the result is a wonderful folk comedythat has the authentic feel of small-town and urban Polish-Jewish life,affirming both in a period of growing anti-Semitism.