Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewShaina Hammerman's Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarly work on Jewish visibility in cinema.
* American Jewish History *
Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews is an essential inclusion for any course on Jewish film, as its analyses of Hasidic images say as much about cultural Judaism as religious. It is also an important read for any scholar thinking about Jewish cultural productions of the late-twentieth century to the present through the prism of gender.
* Journal of Jewish Identities *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: When Jews are Like Jews
1. The Yarmulke beneath the Cowboy Hat: Signifying Jewishness in the Hasidic Western
2. The Jewish Type and le juif typique: Typologies of Jewishness in Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob
3. Hard-Core Jews: Woody Allen's Religious Women and Men
4. Cinema judéité: Projecting Jewish-Muslim Romance
5. What Lies beneath the Wig: Hester Street and Adaptation
Epilogue: Hijab, Habit, and Hasid
Filmography and Bibliography
Index
