Dubbing the Dead: Der Dybbuk 1937–2017 at the Jerusalem YMCA Hall

Stern, Zehavit

doi:10.1162/dram_a_00840

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June 01 2019

Dubbing the Dead: Der Dybbuk 1937–2017 at the Jerusalem YMCA Hall

Zehavit Stern

Zehavit Stern is a researcher of Yiddish film, theatre, folklore, and Hebrew and Yiddish literature currently teaching at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Previously she was the Hasse Fellow in Eastern European Jewish Civilization and a Research Lecturer at the University of Oxford (2010–2015). She holds an MA in Yiddish Culture from the Hebrew University (2005) and a PhD in Jewish Studies, with a designated emphasis in Film Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Graduate Theological Union (2011). [email protected]

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Zehavit Stern

Zehavit Stern is a researcher of Yiddish film, theatre, folklore, and Hebrew and Yiddish literature currently teaching at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Previously she was the Hasse Fellow in Eastern European Jewish Civilization and a Research Lecturer at the University of Oxford (2010–2015). She holds an MA in Yiddish Culture from the Hebrew University (2005) and a PhD in Jewish Studies, with a designated emphasis in Film Studies, from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Graduate Theological Union (2011). [email protected]

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2019

New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TDR/The Drama Review (2019) 63 (2 (242)): 158–166.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00840

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Can one bring an 80-year-old film to life? Can one resurrect a dead culture? Der Dybbuk 1937–2017, a live performance based on the 1937 Yiddish film Der dibuk raises these questions, juxtaposing past and present through live Yiddish dubbing, live music, and contemporary editing.

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