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Yiddish World A short Yiddish horror film set at the start of the Hasidic movement
Informed by Jewish folklore and the writings of Isaac Bashevis Singer, the film carries a mythic poetic quality
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3 rabbis weigh in on aging, beauty and body horror
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Books Tangled up in Boo? Bob Dylan wants this South African horror press to look at his short stories
Crystal Lake Publishing got an unexpected shout-out from the Nobel winner
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Film & TV A gory horror series with Billy Crystal and Itzhak Perlman? Who is this for?
‘Before’ is too shallow to be smart and too silly to be scary
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Culture This horror movie stars a Jewish grandma from Brooklyn. A sweet little old lady she’s not
A granddaughter’s love and offbeat family history drive the dark and campy film ‘Grandma’s House’
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Film & TV She wrote the book on Israeli horror movies — real-life horror stopped the book tour
Author Olga Gershenson talks about the genre of Israeli horror and the ongoing terror in Israel
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Film & TV How William Friedkin, a Jewish kid from Chicago, made us fear the Catholic devil
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Yiddish אַ קאָנפֿערענץ וועגן ייִוואָ קומט פֿאָר אין איר געבוירן־שטאָט — ווילנעA conference about YIVO takes place in its birthplace — Vilnius
איין פֿאָרשער האָט גערעדט וועגן דעם וואָס נישט בלויז די פֿרומע און אָרעמע ייִדן האָבן גערעדט ייִדיש, נאָר די רײַכע און געבילדעטע אויך.
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