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Nathan Abrams
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Spielberg’s Schindler’s List destroyed the long-planned Kubrick Shoah film
The landmark movie, which was released 30 years ago this month, also led to a new genre of Holocaust films
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Obituary: Piper Laurie
Defiant independent actress who challenged Hollywood’s simple, sexual roles
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Preserving Welsh history as the only Jew in the village
While the study of the Jewish past in the principality is vibrant, its Jewish presence is not
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Welcome to Jewrassic Park — Spielberg’s first Nazi parable
Thirty years ago, the now legendary director released his dinosaur movie, echoing the Nazi ‘Museum of an Extinct Race’
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The secret Jewish roots of Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones and the very Jewish adventure
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Obituary: Gerald Fried
Film and TV composer who helped Stanley Kubrick transition from still images into motion pictures
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Obituary: David Gold and Jacqueline Gold
Frustrated footballer turned porn tycoon who co-chaired West Ham and his daughter, the Ann Summers boss who introduced the allure of sex, fantasy and fun to her all-female clientele
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Seinfeld at 25: How it gave us a golden age of TV Jews
The iconic sitcom's legacy is the proliferation of Jewish characters on every network comedy in the US
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Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?
The Coen brothers’ masterpiece was released 25 years ago — and its leading man is unique among Jewish characters on film
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Obituary: Keith Levene
Avant-garde Clash guitarist who formed key part of the history of Jews in punk
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Obituary: Gerald Stern
New Jersey’s agnostic Poet Laureate who fiercely believed in ‘the idea of the Jew’
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40 years ago this month, the most Jewish film ever came out
Pretty much every aspect of Steven Spielberg’s ET resonates with Jews, making it a parable of our story, told by one of us, for us
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Obituary: Bob Rafelson
Director who caught the anti-hero zeitgeist and set the benchmark for Hollywood cool
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Obituary: James Caan
Bad-boy’ actor defined by his role as Sonny Corleone in classic mafia film The Godfather
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Obituary: Monty Norman
Film composer whose electric guitar riff helped transform Ian Fleming’s English spy into international playboy James Bond
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Why don’t people realise that Marilyn Monroe was Jewish?
A new film biography opens next week of the film star who converted when she married legendary playright Arthur Miller
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