“yiddish on tv”
Article
New Yiddish Film and the Transvernacular
Rebecca Margolis
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
Interview
Bad Jews Making Good TV: An Interview with Yidlife Crisis
Dade Lemanski
Jamie Elman and Eli Batalion on language politics in Montreal, Jewish comedy, and making pop culture in Yiddish.
Mar 27, 2016
Blog
Shtisel’s Ghosts: The Politics of Yiddish in Israeli Popular Culture
Shayna Weiss
An Israeli TV show about the Hasidic Shtisel family explores the country's complicated language politics.
Mar 06, 2016
Interview
Yiddish on Transparent: A Talk with Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue
Dade Lemanski and Saul Noam Zaritt
Jill Soloway and Micah Fitzerman-Blue on writing Transparent in Yiddish, whether or not you noticed.
Mar 01, 2016