Jewish Streamer ChaiFlicks Strikes First Yiddish Programing Deal Including Leonard Nimoy Project

EXCLUSIVE: Jewish streamer ChaiFlicks has struck its first deal for Yiddish programing including an oral history project with Leonard Nimoy.

The streamer will make documentary features and short films available via the partnership with the Yiddish Book Center, the Massachusetts-based non-profit dedicated to Yiddish literature and culture.

Starting today, ChaiFlicks will begin rolling out a variety of documentaries from the Yiddish Book Center’s Wexler Oral History Project including Star Trek icon Nimoy’s oral Yiddish history. He was interviewed by Christa Whitney in 2013 and parts of his interview are in Yiddish and subtitled in English.

Other projects comprising the deal are about musicians Peter Sokolow and Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell, as well as Yiddish writers Avrom Sutzkever, Solomon Simon, Ida Maze, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Alter Esselin.  

“We are thrilled to partner with the Yiddish Book Center and continue their mission of disseminating and sharing the beauty of the rich Yiddish language and culture to as wide an audience as possible,” said ChaiFlicks Co-Founder Neil Friedman. “We know that our subscribers globally will enjoy and thoroughly appreciate the wide variety of Yiddish content that features the likes of Leonard Nimoy, Peter Sokolow and many others.”

ChaiFlicks, which is home to more than 3,000 hours of top Jewish films, is now available in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It is about to launch a recently-acquired Kafka mini-series, timed to the 100th anniversary of the iconic writer’s death. Last month, it snapped up Oscar-winning Paweł Pawlikowski movie Ida and a wealth of other titles following a deal with Music Box Films.