Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
In Geveb; a Journal of Yiddish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2020) 10 pp.
Keywords:
Undzere kinder (Motion picture : 1947-1948)
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Search (Motion picture : 1948)
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Motion pictures, Yiddish
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Motion pictures
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Holocaust survivors in motion pictures
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Children in motion pictures
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Language and languages in motion pictures
Abstract:
Is there a Jewish way of not saying things? The years following the Holocaust were a time when many artists, psychoanalysts, and global leaders were focused on two overlapping crises: that of the refugee, children especially, and that of language, as many sensed that human communication had undergone a seismic shift during the war. Drawing from these intellectual and artistic currents were two feature films shot in Europe between 1947 and 1949: Fred Zinnemann’s Hollywood production The Search, and the Yiddish film Undzere Kinder (Our Children), directed by Natan Gross and starring the renowned comic duo of Shimen Dzigan and Yisroel Shumacher. Employing similar cinematic tools, these films nonetheless make very different propositions about the relationships between pain and speech. To understand these differences, I press upon the idea of language communities: Yiddish and Anglo-American cultures, I argue, guide people to different perceptions of the psyche, of love, and of power.
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