A link to my new/old piece on Pre-enactment, in the latest issue of JCMS

treyf \trāf\ adj. (Yiddish, fr. Heb. taref): unkosher, impure, dirty; not conforming to Jewish dietary laws; usually referring to food such as pork and shellfish; may also be used in reference to lesbians or unorthodox political and social views.

Cynthia blowing the Shofar, with Alisa

Streit's Matzos shop

Join us just ahead of Passover on April 3 at 6.30pm for a rare screening of Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky's 'Treyf' (1998) at The Castle Cinema in London, followed by a Q&A with @alisalebow.bsky.social, a writer/filmmaker and Professor of Screen Media, University of Sussex.

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Introducing 📣
Animal Vegetable Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary
A series of four audio episodes that delve into some of the current themes and debates in the field of documentary studies.
Co-produced by: @alisalebow.bsky.social @topiaryland.bsky.social, and me.

The Double Take—The Two Volcano Films from 2022: “Fire of Love” (Sara Dosa) and “The Fire Within” (Werner Herzog) – Animal-Vegetable-Mineral

In Ep.1 of Animal Vegetable Mineral: A Podcast About All Things Documentary, co-hosts @topiaryland.bsky.social
and @alisalebow.bsky.social along with special guest Toby Ashworth talk about Sara Dosa’s film Fire of Love (2022) and Werner Herzog’s requiem The Fire Within (2022).
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One of the oldest extant texts in Yiddish, dated 1382, comes from the Cairo Genizah: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-0... @theul.bsky.social