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Disenchanted Tailor in "Illusion": Sholem Aleichem behind the Scenes of Early Jewish Cinema

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Ber Kotlerman
2014
Published by: Slavica Publishers
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Table of Contents

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Title Page, Copyright, Frontispiece

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

About the Method of Translation and Transliteration

pp. xi-xii

Abbreviations

pp. xiii-xiv

Reel One: Sequence, Cameo, Prologue

pp. 1-24

Reel Two: Birth of the Idea

pp. 25-44

Reel Three: From Symbolic Iconography to “Insider” Cinema

pp. 45-82

Reel Four: Dreams about Genuine Jewish “Cinemo”

pp. 83-134

Reel Five: Shimele Soroker’s Bad Business Deal

pp. 135-174

Epilogue

pp. 175-178

Film Scripts

pp. 179-180

The Bloody Jest: Кровавая шутка

pp. 181-208

The World Is Going Backward (Di velt geyt tsurik) A Cinema-Fantasy for Hanukkah: די וועלט גייט צוריקא סינעמא-פ&

pp. 209-214

Resilient Tevye: Тевье-молочник Неунывающий Тевель

pp. 215-230

Chava, Tevye’s Daughter: Хава Тевелева дочь

pp. 231-246

Ashmedaior:The Enchanted Tailor; Асмодай: или заколдованный портной

pp. 247-264

The Afterworld עולם-הבאקינאָ-סצענאר Загробная жизнь

pp. 265-272

The Dangerous Jest

pp. 273-302

Little Motel Goes to America מאָטל פּייסי דעם חזנס

pp. 303-310

The “Cinematographic” Correspondence of Sholem Aleichem

pp. 311-354

Bibliography

pp. 355-372

Index of Names and Places

pp. 373-378

Index of Cinema Productions, Film Scripts, and Film Companies

pp. 379-382

About the Author

pp. 383
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