Helene Meyers, "Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition" (Rutgers UP, 2021)
New Books in Popular Culture
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I Think the Jewish Film Studies Have Challenged the Boundaries There.
i think the community professional class sometimes needs to pay more attention to inter jewish difference and honor, rather than try to get rid of it. I was about half way through the book, i was, is, including both documentaries and fiction film. And so i was really determined to challenge it and to transgress those boundaries in writing movie majes. It's interesting, because ifm the film is am, hated by, am, say, the jewish press, particularly the community professionals. Ad, then that really is an endorsement for me. But that's just my view on on these movies.
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