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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Main Author: Margolis, Rebecca 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London Lexington Books [2024]
Series:Jewish science fiction and fantasy
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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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xii, 223 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781666910872

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