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Sunday, February 19 • 4:15pm - 5:30pm
The American Jewish Story Through Film II: Guaranteeing Freedom

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The years after World War II should have been a time when Jews found great comfort in America. Yet despite America’s victory over Nazism, Jews remained concerned about anti-Semitism. With the Cold War, HUAC, and McCarthy, most Jews in the film industry were too frightened to speak out, but non-Jews like Darryl F. Zanuck and Edward Dmytryk took on important films like Gentlemen's Agreement and The Young Lions. (Clips to be shown)
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Eric Goldman

Eric Goldman is adjunct professor of cinema at Yeshiva University and founder of Ergo Media, a distributor of Jewish cinema. He was co-host with Robert Osborne on the Turner Classic Movies television network series, "The Projected Image: The Jewish Experience on Film," and also serves... Read More →

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