Reviews
Review
Review of Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar's Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication
Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication suggests innovative and fruitful ways that scholarship in media studies can be applied to Yiddish cinema.
Apr 25, 2024
Review
Review of Sasha Senderovich's How the Soviet Jew Was Made
In this recently-published study, Senderovich challenges this fixed notion of the Soviet Jew, and recounts a complex prehistory of the Soviet Jew in the immediate context of interwar Soviet culture.
Feb 27, 2023
Review
Charlie, [gesturing to Fascist General Franco on screen] fucking swine isn’t he?
William Pimlott reviews Gill Tofell’s Jews, Cinema and Public Life in Interwar Britain and Alan Dein’s Music is the most beautiful language in the World: Yiddisher Jazz in London’s East End 1920s-1950s.
May 23, 2019
