The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen
Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1087-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1087-2 (ISBN)
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.
As a linguistic carrier of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization, the Yiddish language is closely tied to immigrant pasts and sites of Holocaust memory. In The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen, Rebecca Margolis investigates how translated and subtitled Yiddish dialogue reimagines Jewish lore and tells new stories where the supernatural looms over the narrative. The book traces the transformation of the figure of the dybbuk—a soul of the dead possessing the living—from folklore to 1930s Polish Yiddish cinema and on to global contemporary media. Margolis examines the association of spoken Yiddish with spectral elements adapted from Jewish legends within the horror genre. She explores how all-Yiddish prologues to comedy film and television depict magic located in an immigrant or pre-immigrant past that informs the present. Framing spoken Yiddish on screen as an ancestral language associated with trauma and dispossession, Margolis shows how it reconstructs haunted and mystical elements of the Jewish experience.
As a linguistic carrier of a thousand years of European Jewish civilization, the Yiddish language is closely tied to immigrant pasts and sites of Holocaust memory. In The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen, Rebecca Margolis investigates how translated and subtitled Yiddish dialogue reimagines Jewish lore and tells new stories where the supernatural looms over the narrative. The book traces the transformation of the figure of the dybbuk—a soul of the dead possessing the living—from folklore to 1930s Polish Yiddish cinema and on to global contemporary media. Margolis examines the association of spoken Yiddish with spectral elements adapted from Jewish legends within the horror genre. She explores how all-Yiddish prologues to comedy film and television depict magic located in an immigrant or pre-immigrant past that informs the present. Framing spoken Yiddish on screen as an ancestral language associated with trauma and dispossession, Margolis shows how it reconstructs haunted and mystical elements of the Jewish experience.
Professor Rebecca Margolis is Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University, Australia.
Chapter 1: Reimagining the Dybbuk on the Yiddish Screen
Chapter 2: Haunted Presents in Yiddish Horror Movies
Chapter 3: Magical Pasts in Yiddish Prologues
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Zusatzinfo | 15 BW Photos |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-1087-2 / 1666910872 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-1087-2 / 9781666910872 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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