Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Yiddish King Lear, directed by Harry Tomashefsky in 1934, is an 80-minute American movie in Yiddish with English subtitles. It is based on a play in Yiddish (Der Yudisher Kenig Lir) by Jacob Gordin, a Russian Jewish playwright and poet, written in 1892. Its cultural significance lies in the play's reviving Jewish theatre and the film's contributing to the development of Yiddish cinema. Gordin rewrote Shakespeare's play most probably in order to put Jewish theatre onto more serious tracks, whereas Tomashefsky revived it as part 'of the Federal Theatre Project's Yiddish Unit, created under a plan to put unemployed Yiddish actors back to work at the height of the Great Depression' (Joel Schechter). The chapter tries to answer a number of questions linked with adaptation strategies concerning both Gordin's play and Tomashefsky's film: how does Shakespeare's text inform the fictional world of the Jewish quarter in Vilna? How are tradition and change reflected in the film? What place does the film occupy in cinema in Yiddish? What status does the film enjoy in adaptation theory? Finally, what kind of Shakespeare derivative does it constitute?
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".