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Citizen Bernstein

Today on Tablet

by
The Editors
March 31, 2011

The glorious thing about Orson Welle’s Citizen Kane is that even 70 years after it was released, it can feel brand new. Today in Tablet Magazine, contributor Harold Heft explores the oft overlooked Mr. Bernstein: (played by Everett Sloan) Kane’s business manager, the film’s most sympathetic character and explicitly Jewish—at a time when they were still taboo on the silver screen.

From the editors of Tablet Magazine.