Yiddish supernatural on screen, the: dybbuks, demons and haunted jewish pasts
Auteur :
Margolis, Rebecca
Éditeur :
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN :
9781666910872
Date de publication :
28 févr. 2024
Dimensions :
23,6 x 15,9 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
513 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.