Tag: Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman

Montreal comedians Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman are like fish out of water in Sweden. The zany performers, who specialize in Yiddish-inflected humor, landed in Stockholm last May with little or no knowledge about Sweden. They were laser-focused on learning about a small Scandinavian Jewish community that keeps a very low profile. Their explorations unfold […]

Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman, two kibitzers from Montreal’s heavily Jewish enclave of Cote St. Luc, spend a day sampling the city’s culinary delights in their hour-long offbeat documentary, Chewdism: A Taste of Jewish Montreal. They made the film for YidLife Crisis, the Yiddish comedy web site they created a few years ago. Chewdism has […]