“television”

The new ARD mini-series Die Zweiflers (The Zweiflers), a German TV, depicts the involvement of four generations of a Jewish family and their involvement in the red-light district in post-Holocaust Frankfurt, and displays their usage of Yiddish as it shifts over generations.

Feb 24, 2025

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

Roni Masel proposes a "failed watching" of Netflix's new series Unorthodox that sidesteps questions of authenticity in representation and instead "generates what we could call queer pleasure or OTD pleasure."

Jun 29, 2020

Yiddish is moving from the outskirts to the center of Israeli pop culture. Avi Blitz asks how that happens. 

Nov 26, 2018

Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion on language politics in Montreal, Jewish comedy, and making pop culture in Yiddish. 

Mar 27, 2016

An Israeli TV show about the Hasidic Shtisel family explores the country's complicated language politics. 

Mar 06, 2016

Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed. 

Mar 01, 2016