Film

The Forgotten Heroes of Ethiopian Jewry

They risked imprisonment and abuse to bring their people to Israel.

Avishai Mekonen

April 28 2017 12:01AM

Has American Culture Lost Touch with the Hebraic Political Tradition?

Cecil B. DeMille’s absent heirs.

Meir Soloveichik

March 20 2017 12:01AM

Joseph Katz: From Soviet Master Spy to Technical Adviser for James Bond Films

From Lithuania to Brooklyn to Tel Aviv.

Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes and David Gurvitz

Feb. 22 2017 12:01AM

The Jews of “Casablanca”

We’ll Always Have Casablanca.

David Mikics

Feb. 16 2017 12:01AM

A Filmmaker Seeking to Document the Holocaust in the Soviet Union

Erasing Jewish suffering in the USSR.

Izabella Tabarovsky

Jan. 31 2017 12:01AM

The Surprising Return of Yiddish to Film and Television

From a ḥasidic action film to My Crazy Ex-Girlfrend.

Rebecca Margolin

Dec. 20 2016 12:01AM

An Israeli Film about Small-Town Life in the Negev Comes to the American Stage

The Band’s Visit.

Ben Brantley

Dec. 13 2016 12:01AM

A New Film on Atatürk’s Jewish Refugee Professors

Heymatloz.

Heike Mund

Nov. 9 2016 12:01AM

A Forgotten Holocaust Movie from 1943

None Shall Escape.

Thomas Doherty

Nov. 3 2016 12:01AM

“Denial”: Hollywood Defends the Truth against Postmodernism

An effective response to hatred is the unapologetic embrace of one’s own identity.

Gavriel Rosenfeld

Oct. 19 2016 12:01AM

A Surrealistic Film Tackles the Ghosts of Poland’s Jewish Past

Demon.

J. Hoberman

Sept. 12 2016 12:01AM

A New Film Explores the Moral Calculus behind the Assassination of a High-Ranking Nazi

Killing Reinhard Heydrich.

James Kirchick

Aug. 26 2016 12:01AM

Remembering a Great Star of the Yiddish Theater, Hollywood, and the Small Screen

Over eighty years in show business.

Fyvush Finkel

Aug. 18 2016 12:01AM

Woody Allen: World’s Most Forthright Jewish Artist, or Cravenly Ambivalent?

Still hiding from the goyim.

David Evanier

July 28 2016 12:01AM

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