On Sutak's Cinema Judaica: The War Years, 19 39-1949

[...]the birth of a Jewish state, however much historians of the Yishuv can trace the achievement of sovereignty to forces independent of the shock of the Final Solution, cannot in retrospect be removed from the same cataclysmic decade as the torment of the refugee crisis, the plight of Diasporic Je...

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Published in:Jewish film & new media 2016-10, Vol.4 (2), p.192
Main Author: Whitfield, Stephen J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antisemitism
Armed forces
Diaspora
Historians
History
Jewish people
Judaica
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
Museum exhibits
Museums
Nazi era
Nazi groups
Propaganda
Refugees
Religion
Robinson, Edward G
Sovereignty
War
Welles, Orson (1915-1985)
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Summary:[...]the birth of a Jewish state, however much historians of the Yishuv can trace the achievement of sovereignty to forces independent of the shock of the Final Solution, cannot in retrospect be removed from the same cataclysmic decade as the torment of the refugee crisis, the plight of Diasporic Jewry beleaguered by anti-Semitism hardly limited to the distinctive terror of the Third Reich, the impact of totalitarianism, and the momentum of decolonization and nationalism. After Pearl Harbor, the Third Reich blamed the carnage, in which tens of millions of Allied soldiers and European civilians would lose their lives, on "Judeo-Bolshevism." [...]too emphatic a portrayal of Jews might seem to verify Nazi propaganda.
ISSN:2169-0324
2169-0332