Yippee  Yippee, also known as Yippee: A Journey to Jewish Joy, is a 2006 documentary film directed by and starring Paul Mazursky. The film follows Mazursky's journey to a small town in the Ukraine, to witness and participate in a three-day festival of over 25,000 singing, dancing, praying, and emotionally elevated Hasidic Jews. It was Mazursky's first documentary. "Yippee" made its North American debut at the 2007 Palm Springs International Film Festival.