Professor Rebecca Margolis is the Pratt Foundation Chair of Jewish Civilisation at Monash University. Her scholarship focusses on Yiddish linguistic continuity and cultural production to include education, publication, performance, and cinema in Canada has appeared in Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1905-1945 and Yiddish Lives On: Strategies of Language Transmission. Her latest book, The Yiddish Supernatural on Screen: Dybbuks, Demons and a Haunted Jewish Past draws on her research of Yiddish dialogue in a corpus of international movies and television over the last twenty years. Her current project investigates how and why Yiddish in American film and television is heard as funny.