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Emil Stern
Rabbi to the Stars
A bitterly funny roman à clef about a Reform temple and 1930s Hollywood is more Sunset Boulevard than Wilshire Boulevard.
Hollywood Balagan
Hollywood's founding is a tale of shutfus, broiges, and mother's chicken soup.
The Big Schlep
Theodor Adorno said there could be no poetry after Auschwitz, but he didn’t say anything about buddy movies.
Include Me Out
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures seems to have had one goal for its exhibit about the Jews who created Hollywood: make the angry letters stop.
Intrigues and Tzuris
Have you seen the one about the Hasidic jewelers and the Albanian goons?