How Has the Jewish Image in America Been Portrayed in Film?
From the earliest days the film industry has been dominated by Jews, many of them immigrants from Eastern Europe. Yet there have been relatively few accurate depictions of Jewish life in the United States.
This program traces those images in film from Thomas Edison and earliest silents through the 1920s, 1930s and beyond.
We will watch and discuss those significant films; many rare and out of print. All made over the past 100 years that show the ever-evolving Jewish experience in America.
Sponsor: JCC Rockland, The Esplanade at Palisades, The Walter Block Memorial Endowment Fund