A bstr A ct The revival of Jewish culture in post-Soviet Moscow manifested itself in tremendous interest in Yiddish music among both Jewish and non-Jewish artists and viewers. Large-scale in their scope and original in their unorthodox interpretations, perfor- mances of Yiddish music filled the largest concert halls of Moscow in the early 2000s. What do the production, content, and reception of these shows teach us about post- Soviet Jewish identity? This article examines works by Efim Alexandrov and Alexan- der Tsaliuk, contemporary Russian artists who chose to devote their careers to the revival of Yiddish music in post-Soviet Russia.

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White Piano in a Shtetl: Material Culture and Ethnic Identity in the Post-Soviet Jewish Urban Community

Prior to the 1959 Cuban revolution, no Latin American city was more saturated by Hollywood than Havana The US film industry's top stars vacationed on its beaches and availed themselves of its nigh

‘Enseñándolos a ver’: Hollywood in Havana and the Birth of a Critical Practice, 1897–1933

In a general assembly, taking place in a kibbutz named Afikim in 1951, one of the members complained, ‘we have no cultural accomplishments’; instead of celebrating serious and important occasions, such as Herzl Day in memory of the great Zionist leader, ‘all we have is cinema’ [1]. This article deals with the cultural role of movie going in a kibbutz during the early years of the Israeli state. It does not focus on specific movies, but rather describes their general consumption patterns and their social reception. It tries to understand how this popular form of entertainment fit in with kibbutz collective society, its socialist ideology and its national pioneering image. Afikim, a particularly large and wealthy kibbutz, can serve as an illustrative—though not an altogether representative—case study of movie going in 1950s kibbutzim. The reconstruction of its everyday life is based on Israeli newspapers and periodicals, a few interviews, and records such as assembly protocols and the Kibbutz bulletin, stored in Afikim’s historical archive.

Anat Helman

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Hollywood in an Israeli Kibbutz: Going to the movies in 1950s' Afikim