[ecrea] New book: Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema, Edited by Lawrence Baron, Available December

From Lawrence Baron <(lbaron /at/ mail.sdsu.edu)>

The Modern Jewish Experience in World Cinema
Lawrence Baron, ed.

Brandeis University Press
University Press of New England

Table of Contents:
http://www.upne.com/TOC/TOC_1611682083.html
and below:

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Contents

• Preface
• Abbreviations: DVD Rental and Purchase Sources
• Introduction: Wandering Views – Lawrence Baron
• Advancement and Animosity in Western Europe, 1874–1924
• One of Us? Contesting Disraeli’s Jewishness and Englishness in the 
Twentieth Century – Tony Kushner
• Representing the Past and Present in The Life of Emile Zola – Nico 
Carpentier
• The Dreyfus Affair According to HBO – Lawrence Baron
• Renoir’s La Grande Illusion and the “Jewish Question” –Maurice Samuels
• Bigotry, Manhood, and Moral Certitude in an Age of Individualism – 
Ellis Cashmore
• The Shtetl on the Precipice: Eastern Europe, 1881–1921
• Fiddling with Sholem Aleichem: A History of Fiddler on the Roof – 
Stephen J. Whitfield
• Yentl: From Yeshiva Boy to Syndrome – Pamela S. Nadell
• Redressing the Commissar: Thaw Cinema Revises Soviet Structuring Myths 
– Elena Monastireva-Ansdell
• Cinema as Site of Memory: The Dybbuk and the Burden of Holocaust 
Commemoration – Zehavit Stern
• The Americanization of the Jewish Immigrant, 1880–1932
• From Hollywood to Hester Street: Ghetto Film, Melodrama, and the Image 
of the Assimilated Jew in Hungry Hearts – Delia Caparoso Konzett
• The Right Film at the Right Time: Hester Street as a Reflection of Its 
Era – Hasia Diner
• Cultural Erosion and the (Br)other at the Gateway of Sound Cinema – 
Joel Rosenberg
• Ethnic and Discursive Drag in Woody Allen’s Zelig – Ruth D. Johnston
• Uncle Moses: The First Artistic Yiddish Sound Film – Hannah Berliner 
Fischthal
• Revolutionary Alternatives: Zionism and Communism, 1880–1932
• The Birth of a Language, or the Man Who Loved Hebrew – Yvonne 
Koslovsky Golan
• Zionism, Trauma, and New Identity: They Were Ten Revisited – Eldad 
Kedem and Benjamin Ben-David
• Jews of Steel – J. Hoberman
• The Holocaust and Its Repercussions
• Muffled Music – Lawrence Baron
• “There Has Never Been Anti-Semitism in Italy”: The Garden of the 
Finzi-Continis – Giacomo Lichtner
• “All Men Are Jews”: Tragic Transcendence in Kadár’s The Shop on Main 
Street – Jeffrey Saperstein
• History, Memory, and Art in Louis Malle’s Au revoir les enfants – 
Christopher Shorley
• A Reel Witness: Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List – Frank Manchel
• The Pianist and Its Contexts: Polanski’s Narration of Holocaust 
Evasion and Survival – Michael Stevenson
• A Hungarian Holocaust Saga: Fateless – Catherine Portuges
• Filming the Text of Witness: Francesco Rosi’s The Truce – Millicent Marcus
• Our Children: Responding to the Holocaust – Ira Konigsberg
• “Teach Me Gold”: Pedagogy and Memory in The Pawnbroker – Alan Rosen
• “What Is the Way?” Finding Meaning and Purpose after the Holocaust – 
Asher Z. Milbauer
• Israel’s Heroic Years, 1947–67
• Filming the Israeli War of Independence – Ariel Feldestein
• Screening the Birth of a Nation: Exodus Revisited – Yosefa Loshitzky
• Women, Zionism, and Persecution in Iraq: The Story of Herzlia Lokai 
and Her Imprisonment in Baghdad – Daphne Tsimhoni
• From Black to White: Changing Images of Mizrahim in Israeli Cinema – 
Yaron Peleg
• Acceptance in Postwar America, 1945–77
• The Chosen: The Jew as Both American and Alien – Michael W. Rubinoff
• Jew and Not-Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Postwar Hollywood Social 
Problem Film – Steven Alan Carr
• Southern Jewishness on Screen – Eliza R. L. McGraw
• Jewish Women and the Dilemmas of America’s Postwar Middle Class – 
Riv-Ellen Prell
• Of Lox and Columbus: Jewish and American Themes in Goodbye, Columbus – 
Joellyn Wallen Zollman
• A Serious Film – Norbert Samuelson
• When Chippewa Falls Meets Manhattan – Sylvia Barack Fishman
• A Diverse Diaspora
• Like a Bride: The Chicken and the Egg – Elissa Rashkin
• The American Dream on St. Urbain Street: Richler’s Duddy Kravitz and 
Canadian Cinema – Scott Henderson
• Jewish Assimilation in Hungary, the Holocaust, and Epic Film: 
Reflections on Szabó’s Sunshine – Susan Rubin Suleiman
• Burman's Ode to El Once Neighborhood: The Lost Embrace – Tamara L. Falicov
• Sexuality, Orthodoxy, and Modernity in France: North African Jewish 
Immigrants in Karin Albou’s La Petite Jérusalem – Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall
• Contemporary Israeli Experiences
• Munich: A Bitter Fruit on the Olive Branch – Nigel Morris
• Dancing Solo in the Lebanese Mud – Ilan Avisar
• Beta Israel in the State of Israel – Lawrence Baron
• Love in Search of Belief, Belief in Search of Love – Shai Ginsburg
• The Arrangement: Time of Favor – Yvonne Koslovsky-Golan
• Contemporary American Jewish Identities
• Jewish New York in Crossing Delancey – David I. Grossvogel
• Torch Song Trilogy: Gay and Jewish Foundations – Jonathan C. Friedman
• Against Tribalism: David Mamet’s Homicide – Philip Hanson
• Self-Criticism in Public – David Kraemer
• Keeping the Faith: A Multicultural Jazz Singer – Lawrence Baron
• Appendix: Alternate Films
• Contributor Biographies
• Image Credits
• Copyrights
• Index

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