Israeli Bourekas Films

Rami Kimchi teaches film and television in the School of Communications at Ariel University, and held guest appointment at University of Michigan and University of California, San Diego. He is an international award-winning filmmaker and a culture critic. He is the author of The Israeli Shtetls: Bourekas Films and Yiddish Classical Literature.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionBirth of the Bourekas: Sallah and Its InnovationsA Thematic Analysis of BourekasMizrahi Self Representation FilmsBourekas and Classical Yiddish LiteratureThe Dynamics of Continuity between Two Disparate CulturesBourekas Legacy: Post-Bourekas and Neo-BourekasBibliographyIndex

Highly Recommended.(Igeret: The Newsletter of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew) Kimchi's excellently researched and argued work responds to several significant historiographical trends, beginning with postcolonial theory, including the work of Ella Shohat and Homi Bhabha as he notes. This type of transcendence could help develop a new era in Jewish Studies in which porous boundaries are not made impermeable and colonial constructs are not reified in the goals and conclusions of scholarship.- Jessica Carr –Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania (Sephardic Horizons)