Abstract
Jews, Cinema, and Public Life in Interwar Britain
Highlights
With this book Gil Toffell makes an excellent contribution to both the Jewish and film history of the interwar period
Drawing on Miriam Hansen’s work on the reception of early cinema in the US and the well-known theoretical framework of Oscar Negt and Alexander Kluge regarding the politics of counter-public spheres, Toffell considers the soft politics enacted through communal spaces, most importantly the cinemas located in Jewish neighbourhoods
Assessing the political tenor of communal life requires the kind of historical close reading Toffell pursues throughout the book
Summary
With this book Gil Toffell makes an excellent contribution to both the Jewish and film history of the interwar period. Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England Book review: Jews, Cinema, and Public Life in Interwar Britain, Gil Toffell Art Simon1,*
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