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From: Martha <mms200@soton.ac.uk>
List Editor: Ken Nolley <knolley@willamette.edu>
Editor's Subject: Query: exile and assimilation
Author's Subject: Query: exile and assimilation
Date Written: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:33:28 -0800
Date Posted: Wed, 09 Jan 2001 11:33:28 -0500

I'm writing a paper on the way the Jewish exilic
experiences at the end of the 19th and beginning of the
20th Centuries are re-worked in movies.  I have read Neal
Gabler's seminal book "An Empire of their own", and am
fascinated by the way stories of immigration and
assimilation were produced by studios run by Jewish
immigrants, yet with little reference to Jewish ethnicity.
Obviously "The Jazz Singer" is an exception, but can anyone
point me towards early or classical films which might be
relevent, either because of their Jewish content, or
immigration themes.
Thanks for any help!

Martha Snowdon
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Martha Snowdon,
University of Southampton
mms200@soton.ac.uk

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