Introduction : "The structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality" -- Powers of music : A little letter to mother (1938) -- Discourse and dialogue : The living orphan (1939) -- The mass media family : Kol Nidre (1939) -- The battle of the books : Tevye (1939) -- Migration, motherhood, and the asylum : Where is my child? (1937) -- Silence which is communication : Motel the operator (1939) -- Groundlessness I (the nation against the Jew) : The wandering Jew (1933) -- Groundlessness II (among the DPs) : Long is the road (1948) -- Mediating the mystical : The Dybbuk (1937).
Summary:
"Offers a bold new reading of Yiddish cinema by exploring the early diasporic cinema's fascination with media and communication"-- Provided by publisher.
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