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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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. 

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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