Articles
Essays and peer-reviewed scholarship in Yiddish Studies, an interdisciplinary field that engages all aspects of Yiddish cultural production, especially in its relationship to other cultures and languages.
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Orphaned Words: Yiddish, English, and Child Speech in Postwar Cinema
Is there a Jewish way of not saying things? In facing crises in language during the immediate post-Holocaust years, filmmakers in English and Yiddish made choices about how to balance repair and critique.
Jun 30, 2020
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New Yiddish Film and the Transvernacular
The study of Yiddish cinema gets updated for the twenty-first century, Margolis explores how the language is being used in film in the last decade.
Dec 18, 2016