Jewishness – Still Images and Gifs
"For Jews the body already has a complicated history as the locus of religious rules rendered as physical prohibitions, and in Jewish Wedding the companion emotional dimension of each character is added to this portrait. Practices ranging from circumcision to sexual and dietary laws all inscribe on the body affiliations of community and social regulation. For the most part these are rarely seen, internal modifications, visible generally through behavioral choices. [...] Yakobson’s choreography on Jewish themes could be read as performing allegorical truths about constraints on life for Jews in the USSR."