The Yiddish supernatural on screen: dybbuks, demons and haunted Jewish pasts
"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 memo...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Lanham Boulder New York London
Lexington Books
[2024]
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| In: | Year: 2024 |
| Series/Journal: | Jewish science fiction and fantasy
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dybbuk
/ Film
/ Yiddish
/ History
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism TJ Modern history TK Recent history ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Motion pictures, Yiddish
History
B Supernatural on television B Supernatural in motion pictures B Jews in motion pictures B Yiddish television broadcasting History B Jews on television |
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 222 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 1666910872 |