Yiddish Cinema Classes (click on the film and follow the links to the course materials)
Spring 2023 MIGRATION, COMMUNITIES AND TRADITION 23/2, 23/3, 20/4, 11/5, 1/6 1.23/2 Shtetl – Tevye, USA, 1939, 96 minutes, Directed by Maurice Schwartz 2. 23/3 Emigration from shtetl to town – The Light Ahead (Fishke der Krumer) USA, 1939, 94 minutes, Produced & Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer 3. 20/4 Emigration to US- Uncle Moses USA, 1932, 87 minutes Directed by Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto 4. 11/5 Life in US – American Matchmaker , USA, 1940, 87 minutes, Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer 5. 1/6 Coming back - East & West Austria, 1923, 85 minutes, B&W Silent with English and Yiddish intertitles Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson שלום עליכם
Sholem-aleykhem, welcome to our course: it aims at offering the space to watch some of the best examples of pre-war Yiddish cinema and discuss Jewish culture, history, and politics.
The course consists of 5 meetings, during which the teachers introduce the background of the film, supervise the projection of the film, and chair the discussion.
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Course leadersUrszula Ula Chowaniec
She is a Professor at the Andrzej Frycz-Modrzewski Cracow University in Poland. She lives in Stockholm and also lectures Jewish Women’s Literature at the Paideia Folkhögskola. She is also a Research Honorary Fellow at University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies. She worked in School and Slavonic and East European Studies Department between 2011 and 2019 and also studied at the UCL. She is an author of a monograph Melancholic Migrating Bodies in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2015) and a monograph on the novels of Irena Krzywicka, a Jewish feminist in the 1930s W poszukiwaniu Kobiety: O wczesnych powieściach Ireny Krzywickiej (In Search for a Woman: Early Novels of Irena Krzywicka, Kraków 2007). Currently, she is working on the monograph on the poetry of Irena Klepfisz as her research concentrates on Jewish history and Jewish identity in women writing and contemporary lesbian women’s writing (https://jewishwomenswriting.weebly.com). Academic website, including the professional profile: https://cudzoziemki.weebly.com Ivana Koutniková
has studied in four different countries (the Czech Republic, Austria, Israel and Sweden) and holds degrees in Jewish studies, German studies, and history. Her research focus is on the 20th century, especially on the Holocaust and World War II in Central Europe. She has worked in educational organizations such as Centropa (a Vienna-based historical institute dedicated to preserving 20th century Jewish family stories and photos from Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans) and CET Academic Programs in Prague (as a resident director for Jewish and Central European studies). She also has been involved in the creation and organization of a film section for the festival The Days of Jewish Culture in Olomouc, Czech Republic. In 2019–2020 she was an executive board member of the Limmud Stockholm. She has been working with cultural management connected to Jewish culture for more than 8 years. She is one of the editors to publication Sweden's World War II Dilemmas. Case Study: Czechoslovakia. Currently, she works at Paideia as responsible for courses within the Jewish profile, cultural programs and as a project manager.
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Autumn 2022:
LOVE AND FAITH 1.23/10 Shtetl – Tevye, USA, 1939, 96 minutes, Directed by Maurice Schwartz 2. 6/11 Emigration from shtetl to town – The Light Ahead (Fishke der Krumer) USA, 1939, 94 minutes, Produced & Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer 3.20/11 Emigration to US- Uncle Moses USA, 1932, 87 minutes Directed by Sidney Goldin and Aubrey Scotto 4. 4/12 Life in US – American Matchmaker , USA, 1940, 87 minutes, Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer 5.11/12 Coming back - East & West Austria, 1923, 85 minutes, B&W Silent with English and Yiddish intertitles Directed by Sidney M. Goldin and Ivan Abramson |
From the first class: what films come to our minds when thinking love, love and faith, faith and love?
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