Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film between Two Worlds

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Acknowledgments Author's Note Introduction: A Brivele der Mamen 1. Wandering Stars 2. Romance in the Ghetto 3. Face of the Earth Will Change 4. Nineteen-Nineteen 5. Out of Galicia 6. Miracles on the Vistula 7. Yiddish Modernism and Jewish Luck 8. The Prince of Second Avenue 9. Making It in America 10. Once Upon a Time in the Ukraine 11. The Polish Forest 12. The Theatre of the Future 13. Jews of Steel 14. The Faryidisht Film 15. Between Rusland and Daytshland 16. Shund 17. We're on Our Way 18. The Greening of Yiddish Film 19. The Cantor's Sons 20. On the Edge of the Abyss 21. Without a Home 22. Phantom Europe 23. Married to America 24. The Living Remnant Epilogue: A Post Yiddish Cinema Appendix A: Joseph Burstyn's Documentaries Appendix B: Partial Yiddish Talkies Appendix C: Recycled Yiddish Films Glossary Notes on Sources Selected Bibliography Photograph Credits Index

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