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It’s holiday season, and, like Santa, we are in the mood to make lists. Last year, we gave you our top 100 Jewish songs of all time. This year, we’re taking it to the big screen with our definitive...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 1
From as early as 1918, when Lazar Meir moved to California and changed his name to Louis B. Mayer, the Jewish contribution to cinema has been broad and deep, with Jewish directors, writers, producers,...
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The 100 Greatest Jewish Films With A.O. Scott and Jody Rosen
What makes a movie Jewish? A Jewish director, screenwriter, cast? Overtly Jewish themes? Can non-Jews make Jewish films? And is there even such a thing as a Jewish movie? These are more than mere...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 2
It’s Day 2 for Tablet Magazine’s definitive list of the 100 Greatest Jewish Films ever made. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No. 75.Continue reading "Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 3
It’s Day 3 for Tablet Magazine’s definitive list of the 100 greatest Jewish Films ever made. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No. 50.Continue reading "Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 4
It’s Day 4 for Tablet Magazine’s list of the 100 greatest Jewish Films ever made. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No. 25.Continue reading "Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 5
We’re down to the top five. After spending four days counting down the 100 Greatest Jewish Films of all time, it’s time our final installment. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No....
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• Newt Gingrich called the Palestinians an “invented people” (which is basically true and also beside the point and true of just about every other “people”) and aligned his foreign policy with Prime...
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‘Schindler’s List’ Is Everything That’s Wrong With American-Jewish Life
Last week, Tablet Magazine published our list of the 100 greatest Jewish films of all time. At the very bottom was Schindler’s List. In a brief blurb, I called it an “astoundingly stupid” movie,...
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Five Books: Film, Booze, Ben Marcus, Tony Judt, and More
To say that Tablet Magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Jewish Films, published in the first week of December, generated some strong reactions is a bit like noting that 1987’s Ishtar wasn’t universally...
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Novelist and Film Critic Wallace Markfield Could Have Been as Big as Philip...
Had he lived, Wallace Markfield would have celebrated his 86th birthday this week. But it’s been 10 years since this word-slinging tummler left the stage, and you have to wonder if he didn’t write his...
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Kevin Spacey Foiled by Woody Allen's Disdain for Technology
Kevin Spacey is having a pretty good year. His latest triumph–after scoring two Academy Awards in the 1990s–was his masterful/slightly hammy turn on the Netflix series House of Cards, which inspired...
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Article 11
It’s holiday season, and, like Santa, we are in the mood to make lists. Last year, we gave you our top 100 Jewish songs of all time. This year, we’re taking it to the big screen with our definitive...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 1
From as early as 1918, when Lazar Meir moved to California and changed his name to Louis B. Mayer, the Jewish contribution to cinema has been broad and deep, with Jewish directors, writers, producers,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The 100 Greatest Jewish Films With A.O. Scott and Jody Rosen
What makes a movie Jewish? A Jewish director, screenwriter, cast? Overtly Jewish themes? Can non-Jews make Jewish films? And is there even such a thing as a Jewish movie? These are more than mere...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 2
It’s Day 2 for Tablet Magazine’s definitive list of the 100 Greatest Jewish Films ever made. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No. 75.Continue reading "Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 3
It’s Day 3 for Tablet Magazine’s definitive list of the 100 greatest Jewish Films ever made. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No. 50.Continue reading "Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 4
It’s Day 4 for Tablet Magazine’s list of the 100 greatest Jewish Films ever made. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No. 25.Continue reading "Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish...
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Tablet Magazine’s 100 Greatest Jewish Films, Part 5
We’re down to the top five. After spending four days counting down the 100 Greatest Jewish Films of all time, it’s time our final installment. Click here to see today’s countdown, starting with No....
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• Newt Gingrich called the Palestinians an “invented people” (which is basically true and also beside the point and true of just about every other “people”) and aligned his foreign policy with Prime...
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