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What stands behind this communication obsession, as it might be understood, is the films' engagement both with Judaic ideals and with a series of Jewish sociohistorical predicaments of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003etroubled communication\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (immigration, displacement, the breakdown of tradition, and so on) that the films seek to reflect. Accordingly, the authors create a resonant conversation between Yiddish cinema, populated by an endless procession of disconnected characters ardently striving to rejoin the world of communication, and the brilliant yet underappreciated ideas of pioneering Czech-Jewish media theorist Vilém Flusser (1920–1991), who escaped Nazi persecution and built the first part of his intellectual career in Brazil. Indeed, the authors claim that the popular art of Yiddish cinema articulates in dramatic terms a version of the central Flusserian hypothesis that \"the structure of communication is the infrastructure of human reality\" and, by doing so, embodies a remarkable Jewish media theory \"from below.\" Films discussed include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wandering Jew\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1933),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Dybbuk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1937), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere is My Child?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1937), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Little Letter to Mother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1938), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eKol Nidre\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1939), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotel the Operator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1939), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTevye\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1939), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Living Orphan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1939), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLong Is the Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1948).\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"HOPKI","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43220480098366,"sku":"lyd1787285613349","price":26.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0620\/0075\/8846\/files\/yiddish-cinema-the-drama-of-troubled-communication-by-jonah-corne-and-monika-vre_1.jpg?v=1787285618"},{"product_id":"wonder-of-wonders-a-cultural-history-of-fiddler-on-the-roof-by-alisa-solomon","title":"Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof by Alisa Solomon","description":"\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the half-century since its premiere, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFiddler on the Roof\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has become a supremely potent cultural landmark, beloved by audiences the world over. Now, in a history as captivating as its subject, award-winning drama critic Alisa Solomon traces how and why the story of Tevye the milkman, the creation of the great Yiddish writer Sholem-Aleichem, was reborn as blockbuster entertainment and a cultural touchstone, not only for Jews and not only in America.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is first a story of the theater, as Solomon follows Tevye from his humble appearance on the New York Yiddish stage, through his adoption by leftist dramatists as a symbol of oppression, to his Broadway debut and his starring role in a major Hollywood picture. And it is a cultural story, of a show that spoke to the deepest conflicts and desires the world over: the fraying of tradition, generational tension, the loss of roots. 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