Word: antisemitisme
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Oliver Twist (J. Arthur Rank; United Artists), delayed for two years in its U.S. showing because of pressure-group charges that it fosters antiSemitism, can be seen at last by U.S. moviegoers for what it is: a brilliant, fascinating movie, no less a classic than the Charles Dickens novel which...
Two years ago, while setting up U.S. engagements for Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's version of Oliver Twist, British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank ran into a clamor of protest. Jewish groups protested Dickens' "villainous and repulsive" Fagin, as played in the movie by Alec (The Cocktail Party...
A Rome University Ph.D., a pupil of famed Enrico Fermi, Physicist Pontecorvo fled Italy in the 1930s to escape Mussolini's Hitler-inspired antiSemitism. He spent some time in France and the U.S., finally settled in Canada, where he became a British subject and an important researcher at the...
One of Soviet Russia's boasts is that it has wiped out antiSemitism, guaranteed equal rights to its 2,000,000 Jews. In Manhattan last week, free-lance Jewish Scholar Will Herberg analyzed the record:
77. Influenced by last season's success at denouncing antiSemitism, Hollywood tackled another difficult subject: