Bridge of light : Yiddish film between two worlds / J. Hoberman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoberman, J.

Contributor:

National Center for Jewish Film.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Series:

Interfaces, studies in visual culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures, Yiddish--History.

Motion pictures, Yiddish.

Jews in motion pictures.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Yiddish Cinema

Place of Publication:

Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press; [Waltham, MA] : published in association with the National Center for Jewish Film, 2010.

Contents:

Wandering Stars

Romance in the Ghetto

"The Face of the Earth Will Change"

Nineteen-Nineteen

Out of Galicia

Miracles on the Vistula

Yiddish Modernism and Jewish Luck

The Prince of Second Avenue

Making It in America

Once Upon a Time in the Ukraine

The Polish Forest

The Theater of the Future

Jews of Steel

The Faryidisht Film

Between Rusland and Daytshland

Shund

"We're on Our Way"

The Greening of Yiddish Film

The Cantor's Sons

On the Edge of the Abyss

Without a Home

Phantom Europe

Married to America

The Living Remnant

A Post-Yiddish Cinema

Backward into the Real Past, Forward into Endless Time.

Notes:

"First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Yiddish film between two rorlds' ... shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 14, 1991-January 11, 1992."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-394) and index.

Issued by the publishers with the DVD entitled The Yiddish cinema. The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have catalogued this DVD separately. See DVD/015/617 and CJS/DVD/PN/1995.9/Y54/Y54/2006.

ISBN:

9781584658702

1584658703

OCLC:

464597267