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J.Hoberman writes on film for The Village Voice and is an adjunct Professor in
the Cinema Studies Department at New York University. He is author of a
forthcoming history of Yiddish cinema, to be published by the New York
Museum of Modern Art.
Bernard Eisenschitz is a writer, film critic and cinema historian, formerly a
member of the editorial board of Cahiers du cinéma, who has written widely in
French on various aspects of Soviet cinema.
Alexander Medvedkin (1900—89) was a Soviet film director best known in the
West for his film Happiness released in 1935. He was also responsible for the
film train that toured the Donbass region in the early 1930s.