A Warm Tale of Human Foibles
Yirmi Pinkus reconstructs a 1980s Tel Aviv Ashkenazi enclave that is replete with charming vignettes but detached from the realities it aspires to hark back to.
Rachel S. Harris is Associate Professor of Israeli Literature and Culture at the University of Illinois, Urbana Chamapaign. Her latest book, “Warriors, Witches, Whores: Women in Israeli Cinema” was published in 2017.
Yirmi Pinkus reconstructs a 1980s Tel Aviv Ashkenazi enclave that is replete with charming vignettes but detached from the realities it aspires to hark back to.