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November 15, 2021

Why the Academy Is Erasing Jews from Hollywood’s History

Sweeping the ugly parts off screen.

“It’s always been a rich irony,” writes Rob Long, “that indelibly ‘American’ movies such as Some Like It Hot and High Noon were directed—and in many cases, written and directed—by Jews” whose families had come to America seeking better circumstances, and sometimes fleeing extremely bad ones. But although this irony is well known, not everyone wants to recall it:

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