ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the way in which leftist Yiddish films of the 1930s and 1940s in Poland used music and language(s) (Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish) either to articulate their political intentions or to disguise them—the latter due to the political climate in Poland never favouring such films, whether in a late 1930s period dominated by authoritarianism, nationalism and antisemitism, or a decade later, when systems and rhetoric changed but political vectors remained the same.
