Hollywood Addresses Antisemitism
Three-part series examining Hollywood’s role in dealing with Jewish history and the Holocaust.
We’ll look at films such as Gentleman’s Agreement and Crossfire.
Series includes:
Hollywood Addresses Antisemitism – Wed. Jan. 12
War Crimes Trials – Wed. Jan. 19
Ship of Fools and The Pawnbroker – TBA
War Crimes Trials
Everyone loves Classic Movies
a Great Series examining Hollywood’s role in dealing with Jewish history and the Holocaust.
This week the terrific Judgment at Nuremberg.
Series includes:
Hollywood Addresses Antisemitism – Wed. Jan. 12
Hollywood Addresses Antisemitism cont’d – Wed. Jan. 19
Judgement at Nuremberg – Wed. Feb. 2
Ship of Fools and The Pawnbroker – Wed. Feb. 23
Trudy looks at Hollywood’s treatment of Jewish issues
Ship of Fools & The Pawnbroker – Wed. Feb. 23
Jewish History through the Movies
Series examining Hollywood’s role in dealing with Jewish history Antisemitism and the Holocaust.
Series includes:
Hollywood and the Great Moguls – Wed. Jan. 12
The Great Dictator to Gentleman’s Agreement– Wed. Jan. 19
Judgement at Nuremberg – Wed. Feb. 2
Ship of Fools and The Pawnbroker – Wed. Feb. 23
Hannah Senesh is among Israel’s most important heroes, who died by firing squad in 1944 at age 23.
Trudy looks at the story of the Jews of Hungary under General Horthy and Adolf Eichmann – where murders began only in April 1944, and the extraordinary story of a courageous young Jewish woman who went back from Palestine to help.
This lecture is rescheduled from March 30.
Antisemitism on the left
Why did antisemitism not end after the Shoah?
Series includes:
Antisemitism /Anti-Judaism: Wed. Oct. 20
Antisemitism /Anti-Judaism pt 2: Wed. Oct. 27
Antisemitism/Anti-Judaism: Wed. Nov. 10 From Rosenberg to Hitler
Antisemtism on the right: Wed. Nov. 17
Antisemitism on the left: Wed. Dec. 8 (was changed from Dec. 1)
Why didn’t antisemitism end with the Shoah? and the rise of antisemitism on the left
from Joseph Stalin to Jeremy Corbyn
Roots of Arab antisemitism: Wed. Dec. 15
Can they ever forgive us the Shoah?
From Auschwitz to Statehood: will now be in the new year dates tbd