Sonia Gollance

Jun 17, 2024 | jewishbookcouncil.org | Sonia Gollance |Julie Satow

With the most elu­sive chal­lenges, some­times a solu­tion lies right in front of us. That prin­ci­ple guides my work as a schol­ar of Jew­ish iden­ti­ty in pop­u­lar media, as I use the screens in front of us — the films, TV episodes, music videos, tweets, and memes that we con­sume every day — to defuse com­mon real-world chal­lenges in dis­cussing antisemitism. Both Jews and non-Jews com­mon­ly strug­gle to explain how anti­semitism works in twen­ty-first-cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca.

May 2, 2024 | jwa.org | Sonia Gollance

The hit show Bridgerton, which is about to launch its much-anticipated third season, has everyone talking about representation in romance fiction. Set in Regency England, this adaptation of Julia Quinn's beloved eight-book series about the marriage choices of eight aristocratic siblings has gotten attention for its steamy scenes and alternate universe with racially diverse British nobility (although without any Jewish characters, despite the fact that Quinn is herself Jewish).

Mar 1, 2023 | ingeveb.org | Joel Berkowitz |Sonia Gollance |Nick Underwood

Article Murder, Lust, and Laughter, or, Shund Theatre: A Special Issue of In geveb Joel Berkowitz, Sonia Gollance and Nick Underwood CITETHIS ABSTRACT This intro­duc­tion opens the In geveb spe­cial issue ded­i­cat­ed to shund the­ater. In it, the guest edi­tors of the issue lay out the his­to­ry of shund and of its study, while under­scor­ing the con­tri­bu­tions of the four arti­cles and two trans­la­tions includ­ed in this spe­cial issue.

Feb 16, 2023 | ingeveb.org | Sonia Gollance

CITETHIS Title Page for The Shabbes Lamp by Itzig Fei­t­el Stern. Scan cour­tesy of Cen­ter for Jew­ish His­to­ry research librar­i­an Tyi-Kimya Marx. The term “mauscheln” is a reminder of the ways in which anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany was often directed at Jewish speech in general and Yiddish in particular.