Screening of silent film The City Without Jews (Die Stadt ohne Juden) with live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin. This performance is generously supported by the Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts and the Henry and Sylvia Yaschik Foundation.

FREE, but reservation is required: https://donate.sc.edu/MUS/The_City_Without_Jews

About the Artists

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin have been bringing audiences to their feet throughout the US and Europe with their unique and stirring violin and piano scores for Jewish themed silent films. Sosin is a renowned silent film pianist and composer, and Svigals is the world s leading klezmer violinist and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. After meeting at a silent film festival in Italy, the two soon recorded their first original score for the 1923 German film The Ancient Law, followed by The City Without Jews and The Man Without a World.

About the Film

Based on the controversial and best-selling novel by Hugo Bettauer, H.K. Breslauer s 1924 film adaptation of The City Without Jews was produced two years after the publication of the book, only a decade before events depicted in the fictional story became an all-too-horrific reality.

This event is co-hosted by the USC School of Music and the Anne Frank Center at USC