Some Jews, both in America and abroad, couldn’t help but slyly insert some Yiddishkeit into their films. In building what Neal Gabler dubbed “An Empire of Their Own,” moguls recognized the bulk of their audience was Christian, and picked their projects accordingly.īut there were always exceptions that proved the rule. The major stars of the silent and pre-code era typically weren’t of Hebrew stock and, if they were, pretty reliably changed their names along with Jewish directors. And yet, while Jews had an outsized role in shaping Hollywood, Jewish content wasn’t always visible onscreen. This isn’t really saying much, as the medium of film is millennia newer than the People of the Book. For as long as there have been moving pictures, there have been Jews.
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