The "Jew" in Cinema: From the Golem to Don't Touch My Holocaust

by Omer Bartov

Book Overview

From cinema's beginnings, the film image of the "Jew" has closely followed the fortunes and misfortunes of Jews. Analyzing more than 70 films made in the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic, East and West Germany, France, Italy, the United States, and Israel from 1920 to the 1990s, noted historian Omer Bartov argues that depictions of the "Jew" in film have been fed by, or have reacted to, certain stereotypical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253217458
• ISBN13: 9780253217455
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher