Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar textbook-shipeasy Translated from Hebrew by Batya

Translated from Hebrew by Batya Stein

many of which have never been published before

David Fishman examines the efforts of east European Jews to establish their linguistic distinctiveness as part of their struggle for national survival in the diaspora

but significant and meaningful cultural creators in both Black and Jewish civilizations

Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar textbook-shipeasy Translated from Hebrew by BatyaIn this book, Jonah Corne and Monika Vrear offer a conceptually innovative reexamination of Yiddish cinema, a crucial yet little known diasporic phenomenon that enjoyed its "golden age" in the mid to late 1930s. Yiddish cinema, they argue, exhibits a distinctive fascination with media forms, technologies, and institutions, and with relationality writ large. What stands behind this communication obsession, as it might be understood, is the films'