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  • Stills from The Mortal Storm (1940)
    Stills from The Mortal Storm (1940)
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    When Hollywood Fought Nazis

    A new restoration of the 1940 dramatic thriller ‘The Mortal Storm’ reminds us of a rare era of studio political engagement, and the American isolationism and proto-communism that made it unpopular

    byThomas Doherty
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    Actress Hedy Lamarr, the Real-Life Jewish Wonder Woman Whose Inventions Led to WiFi and GPS

    The affecting new documentary ‘Bombshell’ is haunted by recordings of her lilting voice from the 1990s, after her descent into pop-culture hell

    byJ. Hoberman
  • Letter from Robert Bassler to Henry Klinger, 1938.(Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; letter courtesy of Sharon Leib, photo Wikimedia Commons)
    Letter from Robert Bassler to Henry Klinger, 1938.(Photoillustration Tablet Magazine; letter courtesy of Sharon Leib, photo Wikimedia Commons)
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    Bassler’s Letter: How Hollywood’s Man in Vienna Escaped the Nazis

    A fascinating letter tells the gripping story of the fateful extraction of the influential film industry lawyer Paul Koretz

    byThomas Doherty
  • (Andrey Bayda / Shutterstock.com)
    (Andrey Bayda / Shutterstock.com)
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    Hollywood and the Nazis, Revisited

    Why has Ben Urwand’s new book been subjected to such damning responses?

    byDavid Mikics
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    The Myth of Jewish Hollywood’s Collaboration With the Nazis

    A Harvard researcher was convinced he’d found evidence of 1930s movie mogul fascism. But did he get it wrong?

    byMark Horowitz
  • Hitler and Goebbels at the UFA studios in Berlin in 1935.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
    Hitler and Goebbels at the UFA studios in Berlin in 1935.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
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    Hollywood’s Creepy Love Affair With Adolf Hitler, in Explosive New Detail

    Uncovered: new evidence of Jewish movie moguls’ extensive collaboration with Nazis in the 1930s

    byDavid Mikics
  • (Schindler's List: Imdb.com, Sleeper: Corbis, The Wedding Singer: New Line Cinemas, X-Men: 20th Century Fox; Dirty Dancing: DirtyDancing.com)
    (Schindler's List: Imdb.com, Sleeper: Corbis, The Wedding Singer: New Line Cinemas, X-Men: 20th Century Fox; Dirty Dancing: DirtyDancing.com)
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    100 Greatest Jewish Films

    Schindler’s List is astoundingly stupid, Inglourious Basterds is cartoonishly potent, and more in our list of the greatest Jewish movies of all time

    byTablet Magazine
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