About Jewish Film & New Media
Jewish Film & New Media provides an outlet for research into any aspect of Jewish film, television, and new media and is unique in its interdisciplinary nature, exploring the rich and diverse cultural heritage across the globe. The journal is distinctive in bringing together a range of cinemas, televisions, films, programs, and other digital material in one volume and in its positioning of the discussions within a range of contexts—the cultural, historical, textual, and many others.
Current Issue: Volume 12, Issue 1 (2024)
Introduction
Judaism on Screen: Between Trauma, Self-Image, and the Pedagogies of Emotion
Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan
Articles
Media Literacy in Times of Crisis: Empathy and Resilience in Israeli Student Filmmaking After October 7, 2023
Evanna Ratner and Ella Ben Atar
“Immigrant Families, Now Please Assimilate”: Israeli Sitcoms and the Performance of Belonging
Noa Lavie and Sharon Ramer Biel
Review Essays
Holocaust Cinema: Size Over Substance
Lawrence Baron
Report from The Twilight Zone: Viewing Rod Serling through a Jewish Lens
Alexander W. Marcus
Reviews
On Margolis’s The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, Demons and Haunted Jewish Pasts
Isaac (Itsik) Alexander Rosen
On Schwadron’s The Case of the Sexy Jewess: Dance, Gender and Jewish Joke-Work in US Pop Culture
Roberta Mock