Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar textbook-shipeasy insights into how Jewishness intersects

insights into how Jewishness intersects with other forms of identity and identification

but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations

A non-observant journalist who had grown up as the son of a prominent Hasidic rabbi

Translated from Hebrew by Batya Stein

acclaimed author of The Lost

Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar textbook-shipeasy insights into how Jewishness intersectsIn this book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrear offer a conceptually innovative reexamination of Yiddish cinema, a crucial yet little known diasporic phenomenon that enjoyed its "golden age" in the mid to late 1930s. Yiddish cinema, they argue, exhibits a distinctive fascination with media forms, technologies, and institutions, and with relationality writ large. What stands behind this communication obsession, as it might be understood, is the films'