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Antisemitism and Old Hollywood
28 Feb 2015

Antisemitism and Old Hollywood

by John Harding | posted in: Hollywood history | 0

Antisemitism and ethnic hatred were facts of life in General Lew C. Wallace’s 1880 novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.” They were also facts of life in Jazz Age Hollywood, when M-G-M turned the Wallace book into a classic … Continued

anti-semitism, Ben-Hur, Birth of a Nation, Dearborn Independent, General Lew Wallace, Henry Ford, Hollywood, Ku Klux Klan, Miriam Cooper

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