{"title":"eva.stories: Disrespect or a Successful Change in Holocaust Memory?","authors":"Liat Steir-Livny","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0129","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:eva.stories is an Israeli Instagram project. Entrepreneur Mati Kochavi and his daughter, Maya, adapted the diary of thirteen-year-old Eva Heyman, a Jewish Hungarian girl who was murdered in Auschwitz, into Instagram stories that were uploaded to Instagram on the Israeli Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in 2019. Combining the Holocaust with Instagram, a social network service that is highly popular among young people and is associated by the public with silliness and the mundane, stirred up considerable controversy in Israel during its promotional campaign. Opinions changed after the stories went viral (1.8 million followed Eva's Instagram account at one point, for a total of 300 million views internationally), and the project was commended for having altered Holocaust commemoration. This article takes a historiographic and cultural approach to analyze the project in the context of seventy years of Holocaust memory in Israel. It examines the intersection between a vertical plane that deals with knowledge and the transfer of information and a horizontal plane that deals with new ways of presenting Holocaust memory. It is argued the project may have extended the vertical plane of knowledge but failed to augment the horizontal plane of Israeli Holocaust commemoration.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"41 1","pages":"129 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87899007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Noack's Veit Harlan","authors":"Paul R. Bartrop","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0248","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"5 1","pages":"248 - 250"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80159283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Lee's Nazism and Neo-Nazism in Film and Media","authors":"Paul R. Bartrop","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"244 - 247"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79894885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Funny Professors, Serious Lessons: An Analysis of the Image of Jews as Academics in Film","authors":"F. K. Schoeman, C. K. Anderson","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0153","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Higher education has been the subject of films for over a century. Its representations have shaped how the public understands the role of education, and they still inform contemporary North American culture's misgivings and biases against the intellectual and academic world. The device of humor has been key in shaping a portrait of the professor as a self-centered, out of touch, pretentious, and vaguely amoral creature. These negative academic types often happen to be Jewish characters. We asked: how frequently and in what way are Jewish professors portrayed on screen? How does their portrayal challenge or reinforce the audience's perception and prejudices about Jews, intellectuals, and education in America? To answer these questions, this article examines the figure of the Jewish professor in US cinema through a close reading of three exemplary works: A Serious Man (2009), The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996), and Stranger than Fiction (2006). We argue that through stereotypes and antisemitic tropes, American culture has recast the Jew's love of books and education as laughable (through humor) and negative (because it is associated with Jewishness), while simultaneously reinforcing the public's distrust in education and intellectualism in general.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"153 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89240239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ruth Beckermann: Documentarian of the Present","authors":"Débora G. Kantor, Ruth Beckermann","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0226","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Viennese filmmaker Ruth Beckermann is one of Austria's crucial essayists and documentarians. This interview is focused on the personal and political dimensions of the Jewish experience in her body of work since the 1980s, when she started a cinematic inquiry for identity and the subjects of antisemitism and the Holocaust. Her films, from 1983 onward, and particularly The Paper Bridge (1987), Towards Jerusalem (1991), East of War (1996), and Homemad(e) (2000), are a testimony to the core concerns of her generation—the second generation of Holocaust survivors. The interview also explores the themes and subjects of more recent films, like Zorro's Bar Mitzvah (2006), American Passages (2011), and The Waldheim Waltz (2018) and gets into different aspects of her perspective on filmmaking.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"150 1","pages":"226 - 238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88961622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Helford's What Price Hollywood","authors":"V. Brook","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0264","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"26 1","pages":"264 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85257320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Ceplair and Trumbo's Dalton Trumbo and Doherty's Show Trial","authors":"Shane Cullen","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"92 1","pages":"239 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83494135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Slucki, Finder, and Patt's Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust","authors":"Elyce Rae Helford","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"48 1","pages":"259 - 263"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88228840","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding @eva.stories: Holocaust Memory in the Instagram Era","authors":"Noam Tirosh","doi":"10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.8.2.0217","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:The Instagram account eva.stories went online on May 1, 2019, during the official Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day. It attracted millions of people to watch a digital adaptation of Eva Heyman's diary, written by a thirteen-year-old Jewish Hungarian girl who died in Auschwitz. The project was much debated, and critics claimed that an Instagram account of a girl murdered in the Holocaust is a downgraded way to commemorate the Holocaust. However, eva.stories, like other mediated techniques with which people commemorate Holocaust-related stories, is shaping contemporary Holocaust memory. As such, understanding eva.stories can help uncover new elements of Holocaust memory in the \"Instagram era.\" In this short report, eva.stories is further contextualized using a few of Andrew Hoskins's core assumptions regarding the \"memory of the multitude.\" This review reveals how new mediated practices of Holocaust remembrance change how we engage with and remember Holocaust-related narratives.","PeriodicalId":40351,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Film & New Media-An International Journal","volume":"106 2 1","pages":"217 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77759909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}