The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen
Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-1087-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (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 bound up with immigrant pasts and haunted sites of Holocaust memory. In this book, Rebecca Margolis investigates how translated and subtitled Yiddish dialogue reimagines and reconstructs Jewish lore and tells new stories where the supernatural looms over the narrative. The chapters trace the transformation of the figure of the dybbuk– the soul of the dead possessing the living –from folklore to 1930s Polish Yiddish cinema and on to global contemporary media.; examine the association of spoken Yiddish with spectral elements adapted from Jewish legends in the realm of horror; and illustrate how all-Yiddish prologues to comedy film and television are situated in an immigrant or pre-immigrant past, depicting mystical people or objects that influence 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 bound up with immigrant pasts and haunted sites of Holocaust memory. In this book, Rebecca Margolis investigates how translated and subtitled Yiddish dialogue reimagines and reconstructs Jewish lore and tells new stories where the supernatural looms over the narrative. The chapters trace the transformation of the figure of the dybbuk– the soul of the dead possessing the living –from folklore to 1930s Polish Yiddish cinema and on to global contemporary media.; examine the association of spoken Yiddish with spectral elements adapted from Jewish legends in the realm of horror; and illustrate how all-Yiddish prologues to comedy film and television are situated in an immigrant or pre-immigrant past, depicting mystical people or objects that influence 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.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.02.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Jewish Science Fiction and Fantasy |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 236 mm |
| Gewicht | 513 g |
| Themenwelt | 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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