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'...a fascinating anthology which should appeal to anyone with an interest in Jewish history or film studies' Jewish Chronicle "…the first book on the subject of Yiddish films to be published in the UK and deserves a wide readership." Bimah Published in association with the European Jewish Publication Society CONTENTS Foreword - Arianne Ulmer Cipes Yiddish film and the American experience - Joseph Cohen The Jazz Singer and its reaction in Yiddish cinema - Eric Goldman Joseph Green - Chaim Pevner Ost und West: Old World and New - Jeffrey Shandler, New York University Sunny Skies and Green Fields - Joel Finler The Light Ahead - Sylvia Paskin Freylachs on film - Michael Alpert, YIVO The crooked road to Jewish luck - Barbara Alikhani Nosn Bekher fort aheym: a Yiddish film for the Soviet homeland - Laura Greene The only 'I' in the world: religion, psychoanalysis and the dybbuk - Ira Koningsberg, University of Michigan The devil and Beethoven: convergent themes in Yiddish film and literature - Dafna Clifford, SOAS Uncle Moses - Hannah Berliner Fischtal The celluloid closet of Yiddish Film - Eve Sicular Gender rebellion in Yiddish film - Eve Sicular A century in the life of Sholem Aleichem's Tevye - Ken Frieden, Syracuse University The Goskinds on Jewish life in Poland - Bryan Burns, University of Sheffield Descendant dybbuks: Yiddish cinema and Hollywood - Alex Gordon, Spiro Institute Nathan Altman - Joel Finler
"This excellent collection of essays... written by true enthusiasts... to illustrate the rich visual and cultural content of Yiddish cinema."
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