Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar textbook-shipeasy insights into how Jewishness intersects

insights into how Jewishness intersects with other forms of identity and identification

Her curiosity led her to embark on an entire year of intensive research

and unwanted marriage

many of which have never been published before

Translated from Hebrew by Batya Stein

Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar textbook-shipeasy insights into how Jewishness intersectsIn 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'