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 memory.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Blue Ridge Summit :
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic,
2024.
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| Series: | Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy Series.
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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: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (237 p.). |
| ISBN: | 9781666910889 1666910880 |