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100 Greatest Jewish Films

Day 4, Nos. 25 to 6: Meet the Parents makes intermarriage OK, Ghostbusters explores Jewish theology, and The Graduate goes just around the bend

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Tablet Magazine
December 08, 2011
(Ghostbusters, Yentl, and Clueless: Corbis; Citizen Kane: Getty Images; The Graduate: Britannica.com)
(Ghostbusters, Yentl, and Clueless: Corbis; Citizen Kane: Getty Images; The Graduate: Britannica.com)

It’s Day 4 for Tablet Magazine’s list of the 100 greatest Jewish Films ever made.

Like any other discussion about the essence of Judaism, trying to settle on the 100 greatest Jewish films of all time is often an exercise in frustration, with more questions than clear criteria and much room for debate. Click here for the full list, which now includes numerous cases of non-Jews passing as Jews, Jews passing as something else, Nazis who sing, and Indians who speak Yiddish. It’s an eclectic lot, which is precisely the point of the list.

From the editors at Tablet Magazine