A non-observant journalist who had grown up as the son of a prominent Hasidic rabbi
Translated from Hebrew by Batya Stein
a collector of Jewish folklore
Every recipe is masterfully tailored to the home cook
many of which have never been published before
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'