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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Spielberg’s Schindler’s List destroyed the long-planned Kubrick Shoah film

Actress Piper Laurie arrives at the premiere of Lions Gates Films' "Eulogy" on October 13, 2004 (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Obituary: Piper Laurie

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Preserving Welsh history as the only Jew in the village

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Ka'a'awa, Hawaii, USA - February 24, 2011: This Jurassic Park sign marks the area in KaA>aA>awa, Hawaii in which the movie was staged and filmed. Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film centers on the fictional place in Costa Rica, where billionaire philanthropist John Hammond and a team of genetic scientists from his company InGen have created an amusement park of cloned dinosaurs.

Welcome to Jewrassic Park — Spielberg’s first Nazi parable

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The secret Jewish roots of Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones and the very Jewish adventure

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June 29, 2023 12:37

The secret Jewish roots of Indiana Jones

Obituary: Gerald Fried

Film and TV composer who helped Stanley Kubrick transition from still images into motion pictures

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June 1, 2023 10:00

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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May 18, 2023 15:17

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 09: West Ham United Chairman David Gold poses for photographs prior to the Emirates FA Cup Third Round match between West Ham United and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Boleyn Ground on January 9, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

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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May 9, 2023 14:32

Seinfeld at 25: How it gave us a golden age of TV Jews

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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April 20, 2023 10:00

Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?

Obituary: Keith Levene

Avant-garde Clash guitarist who formed key part of the history of Jews in punk

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March 9, 2023 18:10

Obituary: Gerald Stern

New Jersey’s agnostic Poet Laureate who fiercely believed in ‘the idea of the Jew’

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January 26, 2023 09:45

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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December 22, 2022 15:30

40 years ago this month, the most Jewish film ever came out

Obituary: Bob Rafelson

Director who caught the anti-hero zeitgeist and set the benchmark for Hollywood cool

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November 17, 2022 14:44

Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Fiona Shaw, Peter Vaughan, John Savident

Obituary: James Caan

Bad-boy’ actor defined by his role as Sonny Corleone in classic mafia film The Godfather

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November 3, 2022 14:09

TORONTO, ON - SEPTEMBER 14: Actor James Caan from "Henry's Crime" poses for a portrait during the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in Guess Portrait Studio at Hyatt Regency Hotel on September 14, 2010 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Matt Carr/Getty Images)

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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October 6, 2022 14:55

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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September 28, 2022 09:38

(Eingeschr√§nkte Rechte f√ºr bestimmte redaktionelle Kunden in Deutschland. Limited rights for specific editorial clients in Germany.) *17.10.1915-10.02.2005+Schriftsteller, USAmit Ehefrau Marilyn Monroe nach der Hochzeit (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

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Nathan Abrams

Latest from Nathan Abrams

Spielberg’s Schindler’s List destroyed the long-planned Kubrick Shoah film

Obituary: Piper Laurie

Preserving Welsh history as the only Jew in the village

Welcome to Jewrassic Park — Spielberg’s first Nazi parable

More from Nathan Abrams

The secret Jewish roots of Indiana Jones

Obituary: Gerald Fried

Obituary: David Gold and Jacqueline Gold

Seinfeld at 25: How it gave us a golden age of TV Jews

Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?

Obituary: Keith Levene

Obituary: Gerald Stern

40 years ago this month, the most Jewish film ever came out

Obituary: Bob Rafelson

Obituary: James Caan

Obituary: Monty Norman

Why don’t people realise that Marilyn Monroe was Jewish?