This three-part series explores the ongoing Hollywood boycott of Israeli film institutions, which has been compared to the Hollywood Blacklist of the McCarthy era in the late 1940s and 1950s, an earlier period of extreme polarization in America during which political ideology and propaganda were used to target and marginalize Jewish voices in the entertainment […]
Beth Tikvah Synagogue Toronto and Classi Lectures Present Steve Nadler on Rembrandt and the Jews Steve Nadler explores the Jewish world of seventeenth-century Amsterdam, a city where art, religion, and cultural exchange thrived side by side. We begin with Rembrandt and his neighbors in Amsterdam’s bustling Jewish quarter, including Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel—Europe’s most renowned […]
The Hollywood Boycott explores the recent Hollywood boycott of Israeli film institutions in response to the Gaza conflict, which critics argue echoes the McCarthy-era Blacklist in its effects, chiefly the creation of a toxic atmosphere of cultural silencing which crosses into antisemitism through the collective exclusion of Jewish and Israeli artists regardless of personal political […]
Right to Left and Back Again explores the differences between the Blacklist and the Boycott within the context of Hollywood’s perceived ideological shift from right to left, tracing the transition from the conservative studio era to the more progressive, socially liberal orientation that emerged in the 1960s. This shift reflects broader cultural changes, with contemporary […]
