Tracing the history of Jewish gangsters and boxers in America from the earliest days until the end of the era.
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The Ner Tamid Lectures #5: “Laughing Through The Tears”
The evolution of Jewish comedy in America, tracing the roots from Europe to the modern day.
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Hannah Senesh, The Jewish Poet and Martyr
Part of planned series on Heroes of the Holocaust, this is a celebration of the all-too-short life and tragic death of an extraordinary woman.
(Requires PowerPoint or Google Slides) Hannah Senesh
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The Ner Tamid Lectures #4 “You Oughta Be In Pictures” A History of Jews In Cinema
On October 6, 1927, audiences line up outside the Warner Bros. flagship theater to see the first full-length movie with synchronized audible dialog: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson. Movies would be forever changed.
Almost all the major studios in Hollywood were founded by Jewish industry pioneers:
- Carl Laemmle > Universal Studios (1912)
- Adolph Zukor > Paramount Studios (1912)
- Harry Cohn > Columbia Pictures (1919)
- Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner > Warner Bros. (1923)
- Marcus Loew > Metro-Goldwyn (1924), becomes Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer also known as MGM
- David Sarnoff > RKO (1925)
This is their story.
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The Ner Tamid Lectures #3 – The Making of Broadway
The third in my series of lectures delivered at https://www.lvnertamid.org/ on the Jewish American Experience focusing on how Jewish pioneers shaped the American theater. Tracing the roots from early Purim Shpiels through the Brody Singers to Goldfaden, the Adler family, the musical playwrights of the 1950s, Neil Simon, and Joseph Papp, it is a comprehensive overview of the contributions.
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