Reviews

Mar 22, 2017

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

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

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