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Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film, Past and Present

Teaneck, New Jers.: Holmes & Meier, revised and expanded ed. (2011), xvi, 272 pp.

Contains filmography pp. 219-248, bibliogr. pp. 249-257, index

ISBN 978-0-8419-1437-7

Signature commbox: 50-Religion-E 2011

Introduction: What is a Yiddish film?
1 Precursors, 1910-1918
2 Postwar silent pictures: Austria, Poland, and the United States
3 The Soviet Yiddish film, 1925-1933
4 The American Yiddish sound picture, 1929-1937
5 The golden age of Yiddish cinema, Part I: Poland, 1936-1939
6 The golden age of Yiddish cinema, Part II: United States, 1937-1940
7 After the war: Limited success, 1946-1950
Epilogue: A rebirth of interest