The Yiddish Supernatural On Screen

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Jews in motion pictures
ISBN : 9781666910889

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The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen by Rebecca Margolis Pdf

"This book examines how supernatural film and television integrate Yiddish dialogue to reimagine and reconstruct haunted and mystical elements of the Jewish experience, illustrating how closely bound up the Yiddish language is with shadowy immigrant pasts and the haunted sites of Holocaust memory"--

Author : Emanuel Lawrence Gebauer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : NYPL:33433085627416

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Religion and the Supernatural on the American Screen by Emanuel Lawrence Gebauer Pdf

Author : Howard Schwartz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780195067262

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Lilith's Cave by Howard Schwartz Pdf

Tales of terror and the supernatural hold an honored position in the Jewish folkloric tradition. Howard Schwartz has superbly translated and retold fifty of the best of these folktales. Gathered from countless sources ranging from the ancient Middle East to twelfth-century Germany and later Eastern European oral tradition, these captivating stories include Jewish variants of the Pandora and Persephone myths.

Author : Tony Kushner,Joachim Neugrochel
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559366984

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A Dybbuk by Tony Kushner,Joachim Neugrochel Pdf

A stunning adaptation of S. Ansky's mystical dramatic legend The Dybbuk with previously unpublished folklore.

Author : Olga Gershenson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781978837867

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New Israeli Horror by Olga Gershenson Pdf

Before 2010, there were no Israeli horror films. Then distinctly Israeli serial killers, zombies, vampires, and ghosts invaded local screens. The next decade saw a blossoming of the genre by young Israeli filmmakers. New Israeli Horror is the first book to tell their story. Through in-depth analysis, engaging storytelling, and interviews with the filmmakers, Olga Gershenson explores their films from inception to reception. She shows how these films challenge traditional representations of Israel and its people, while also appealing to audiences around the world. Gershenson introduces an innovative conceptual framework of adaptation, which explains how filmmakers adapt global genre tropes to local reality. It illuminates the ways in which Israeli horror borrows and diverges from its international models. New Israeli Horror offers an exciting and original contribution to our understanding of both Israeli cinema and the horror genre. A companion website to this book is available at https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/ (https://blogs.umass.edu/newisraelihorror/) Book trailer: https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw (https://youtu.be/oVJsD0QCORw)

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : UCLA:31158001416600

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The Journal of the Screen Producers Guild by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Hoberman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584658702

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Bridge of Light by J. Hoberman Pdf

The definitive history of Yiddish cinema returns to print with additional material

Author : Ellen Bernstein
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580236805

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Ecology & the Jewish Spirit by Ellen Bernstein Pdf

What is nature’s place in our spiritual lives? In today’s modern culture, we’ve become separated from the sacredness of the natural world. This book offers a different, eye- and soul-opening way of viewing our religion: A perspective grounded in nature, and rich in insights for seekers of all faiths. Respect for the holiness of Creation, our duty to protect the natural world, reverence for the land...a focus on nature is part of the fabric of Jewish thought. Here, innovative contributors bring us a richer understanding of the long-neglected themes of nature that are woven through the biblical creation story, ancient texts, traditional law, the holiday cycles, prayer, mitzvot (good deeds), and community. Ecology & the Jewish Spirit explores the wisdom that the Jewish tradition has to offer all of us, to help nature become a sacred, spiritual part of our own lives.

Author : Edward S. Shapiro
Publisher : University of Scranton Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077624297

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Yiddish in America by Edward S. Shapiro Pdf

Yiddish is a rich, complex, and multilayered language, and that complexity is reflected in Yiddish culture. In Yiddish in America, Edward S. Shapiro has gathered a collection of lively essays on Yiddish literature, music, film, and journalism in the United States. This accessible volume demonstrates the enduring value of Yiddish culture through its reliance on solidarity, its artistic adaptability, and its balance of secular and religious characteristics. Shapiro also addresses the problems that have arisen when this vibrant language has been misunderstood or stereotyped, in a book that is sure to delight anyone interested in American Jewish culture.

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781793637130

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Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1945 by Valerie Estelle Frankel Pdf

Science fiction first emerged in the Industrial Age and continued to develop into its current form during the twentieth century. This book analyses the role Jewish writers played in the process of its creation and development. The author provides a comprehensive overview, bridging such seemingly disparate themes and figures as the ghetto legends of the golem and their influence on both Frankenstein and robots, the role of, Jewish authors and publishers in developing the first science fiction magazine in New York in the 1930s, and their later contributions to new and developing medial forms like comics and film. Drawing on the historical context and the positions Jews held in the larger cultural environment, the author illustrates how themes and tropes in science fiction and fantasy relate back to the realities of Jewish life in the face of global anti-Semitism, the struggle to assimilate in America, and the hope that was inspired by the founding of Israel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780791481622

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Landmark Yiddish Plays by Anonim Pdf

Offering snapshots of a pivotal era in which the Jews of Europe made the transition from a traditional to a more modern world, the Yiddish plays translated and collected here wrestle with issues that continue to concern us today: changing gender roles, generational conflict, class divisions, and religious persecution. In their introduction to the volume, Joel Berkowitz and Jeremy Dauber place the plays in the context of the development of modern drama and Yiddish drama and examine their treatment of social, political, and religious issues. The many ways in which the plays address these issues make them transcend their own time, exciting a new generation of readers and theatergoers.

Author : Rebecca Margolis
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773585898

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Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil by Rebecca Margolis Pdf

Looking at Montreal's Jewish community during the first half of the twentieth century, Margolis explores the lives and works of activists, writers, scholars, performers, and organizations that fuelled a still-thriving community. She also considers the foundations and development of Yiddish cultural life in Montreal in its interaction with broader issues of diasporic Jewish culture. An illuminating look at the ways in which Yiddish culture was maintained in North America, Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil is the story of how a minority culture was transplanted and transformed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fantasy fiction, Yiddish
ISBN : 1568658451

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A Dybbuk by Anonim Pdf

The first part of the book features Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Dybbuk by S. Ansky from Joachim Neugroschel's translation, with an afterword by Harold Bloom. Considered by many to be the greatest Yiddish drama, The Dybuuk recounts the tale of a wealthy man's daughter who is possessed by the spirit of her dead beloved. Also included in this volume is a selection of stories translated into English for the first time by Joachim Neugroschel, illuminating different aspects of the Jewish mystical world, including possessions, transmigration, fairy tales, parables and miracles.

Author : Debra Caplan,Rachel Merrill Moss
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472903856

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The Dybbuk Century by Debra Caplan,Rachel Merrill Moss Pdf

A little over 100 years ago, the first production of An-sky’s The Dybbuk, a play about the possession of a young woman by a dislocated spirit, opened in Warsaw. In the century that followed, The Dybbuk became a theatrical conduit for a wide range of discourses about Jews, belonging, and modernity. This timeless Yiddish play about spiritual possession beyond the grave would go on to exert a remarkable and unforgettable impact on modern theater, film, literature, music, and culture. The Dybbuk Century collects essays from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore the play’s original Yiddish and Hebrew productions and offer critical reflections on the play’s enduring influence. The collection will appeal to scholars, students, and theater practitioners, as well as general readers.

Author : Jonathan L. Friedmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666904703

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Goliath as Gentle Giant by Jonathan L. Friedmann Pdf

In the Hebrew Bible and stories loyal to it, Goliath is the stereotypical giant of folklore: big, brash, violent, and dimwitted. Goliath as Gentle Giant sets out to rehabilitate the giant’s image by exploring the origins of the biblical behemoth, the limitations of the “underdog” metaphor, and the few sympathetic treatments of Goliath in popular media. What insights emerge when we imagine things from Goliath’s point of view? How might this affect our reading of the biblical account or its many retellings and interpretations? What sort of man was Goliath really? The nuanced portraits analyzed in this book serve as a catalyst to challenge readers to question stereotypes, reexamine old assumptions, and humanize the “other.”