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The Fool and the AssassinMonday, February 18, 2013 by Dan Kagan-Kans | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Most movie stars don’t act, they play themselves. Danny Kaye, the biggest star of all in the 1940s and 1950s, who would have been 100 last month, was different.
Hollywood Goes to AuschwitzFriday, June 29, 2012 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Hollywood’s first encounter with the Holocaust came decades before Schindler’s List or any such dramatizations. The footage of genocide and its perpetrators, captured by three iconic American directors, shaped not only how we perceive the Holocaust, but also the subsequent development of American cinema—and the directors themselves.
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Did Sondheim Destroy the Musical? Kate Wakeling, Jewish Quarterly. Broadway musicals were once the bastion of Jewish acculturation in America. But, in his musicals, Jewish composer Stephen Sondheim swapped assimilation for alienation.