Yiddish Cinema: The Drama of Troubled Communication by Jonah Corne and Monika Vrečar textbook-shipeasy A non-observant journalist who had

A non-observant journalist who had grown up as the son of a prominent Hasidic rabbi

Translated from Hebrew by Batya Stein

acclaimed author of The Lost

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

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 A non-observant journalist who hadIn 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'