Silver Screen, Hasidic Jews: The Story of an Image

"A valuable contribution to a growing body of scholarly work on Jewish visibility in cinema." —American Jewish History

Motivated by Woody Allen's brief comedic transformation into a Hasidic Jew in Annie Hall, cultural historian Shaina Hammerman examines the effects of real and imagined representations of Hasidic Jews in film, television, theater, and photography.

Although these depictions could easily be dismissed as slapstick comedies and sexy dramas about forbidden relationships, Hammerm...