Thanks for putting together this scathing indictment of Hollywood's pathetic attempts to tell the stories of the Holocaust. Your contempt and disdain are fully justified.
Hollywood has had a woke view on all things Jewish for decades It is very uncomfortable with Jewish values and traditions except to be shown as relics of life in a ghetto of its imagination
This is an excellent post. I do have some of my own caveats though (of course since this is a jewish substack we all always have alot to say)
The Devil's Arithmetic I found to be a good book and a good movie. It didnt really bother me that they had Kirsten Dunst played the main character. There are plenty of blond Jews in the world. I thought its portrayal of the camp was quite telling for young children. It is truly brutal. (the author of the script is one of the few really good Jews in Hollywood, orthodox Jew and proud zionist) I have to tell a secret, for years after reading the book and watching the movie my oldest refused to open the door for Elijah afraid he would be transported back to Poland 1939. (yes he had/has a vivid imagination, he also minored in holocaust studies in college)
I also have no interest in watching any of these movies, the Brutalist or that nonsense with Eisenberg. I watched him on Maher and he is so incredibly stupid and ignorant of jewish history its revolting. Maher is generally right on target about everything, including defending Jews and Israel. So I will cut him some slack with making fun of the nazi salute. That was his error for the season. And I will continue to watch Bill Maher, people are allowed a few errors in life.
Hollywood simply makes me sick and most of the Jews in Hollywood are pathetic. I think we can name the good ones by counting on 1 hand and losing a finger and thumb (Gal Gadot may be the only Jewish actor worth anything in that industry)
Thank you for reviewing these films. Now I know what to avoid watching. So much for the canard that Jews control Hollywood. Hollywood is actually overtly antisemitic. And the Jews who are in Hollywood are self-loathing, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel POS's with very few exceptions. The far-right antisemites who complain about Hollywood i.e. Jews are too damn stupid to even realize they are on the same side as them regarding Jews and Israel.
Thank you so much for your interesting article......Could not agree more with your pain and disgust about the recent Hollywood Holocaust !!!......we Jews know extremely well about the Holocaust.....nevertheless, there were two excellent movies The Pianist and Defiance......
It is difficult to respond to this correct diatribe against antisemitism and “correct” thinking about Jews.
A Real Pain was intellectually vacuous and insulting to the history of Jews in general.
There have been plenty of excellent movies about the Holocaust but Hollywood can’t recognize them. The Zone of Interest was inaccurate but maybe taught non Jews something. The Interrogation was intellectually and emotionally accurate but no one saw it.
I sent out to my self proclaimed progressive friends Screams before Silence but who watched it. In the same vein, Holocaust films in popular culture tell the same tales of Jews killed with no consequence. We’ve seen enough dead Jews but there is no moral follow through. I cry through these movies but non Jews just turn away.
A film like 1945, Hungarian with a universal message, will not be made in Hollywood nor seen by them. I don’t totally agree with the authors argument but I do agree with the deep seated indifference to truth hidden by violence as a moral equivalence to what has and continues to happen. I can watch the Walking Dead for that.
Well,here in 2025,it looks like the USA is becoming Orbanicized very quickly,so maybe a little appreciation may slip through for an honest appraisal as Best Foreign Film.
It's hard to say,the Luciferians are deeply entrenched and I don't know what Trump can do to root Didn't Earn It out of the Oscars,but the change of wind direction may yet cause course correction.
To FoJ: Mallory Mosner is an excellent writer and, as evidenced by this piece, among the most insightful and thought provoking Jewish voices I’ve discovered on Substack. She needs to be amplified and glad to see you guys doing that.
You’re spot on about both of these films, Mallory, as well as the majority of Hollywood’s attempts to tell stories about the Holocaust, its victims, and Jews in general. We can certainly demand better of Hollywood, and we should, but I wouldn’t hold my breath given the sorry state of the industry.
The one thing to take a bit of comfort in — with respect to these two films at least — is that for all of the media’s swooning, combined they’ve probably sold less than 4 million tickets total worldwide — and I think it’s safe to assume that a lot of the same people are buying tickets for both films, so their cultural impact will be pretty insignificant.
One thing needs pointing out to those falling over themselves praising The Brutalist. Anyone with the least architectural interest will immediately recognise the movie being blatantly based on the life of real life Hungaro-Jewish master Marcel Breuer. Unlike the tragic character Breuer fortuitously left Central Europe long before the war and became a star in the USA. So the Holocaust back-story seems tacked on for pathos rather than some deep element of the tortured genius plotline.
You’d be surprised how easily an unarmed population can be controlled and killed by an armed minority. The Nazis enacted the Holocaust, not the Poles. You can tell by the way that millions of Jews lived in Poland before the Germans invaded. The Poles, like every other ethnicity in Europe had anti-Semitic elements. Smearing an entire nation with the same brush is the tool of the demagogue. Although given the use of the nasty slur ‘shiksa’, I doubt this author gave much thought to any but their own people’s feelings.
Everywhere in Europe had anti-Semitic heritage. Several countries literally expelled every Jew in their borders. Poland actually allowed them to live there. Was it perfect, no, such is life. That’s simply the way it was.
Some countries were worse than others. In Denmark, the King wore a star; in Italy they weren't that interested in rounding up their Jews; in France they were pretty quick to round up their Jews; in Poland they were absolutely complicit. It was good in Poland decades and decades before, but things changed. When things don't go well for a population, they have to blame someone.
The situations are not comparable. The fact Denmark even still had a king to wear a star shows how much leniency was given to them. Italy was an allied country, not an occupied zone! Funny how quickly some people forget how the Polish elite, the leaders of the country in every field were brutally massacred by Soviet and Nazi leadership. The remainder joined the resistance. So when you are talking about Poles, you are talking about those degraded elements who weren’t important enough to be killed or patriotic enough to fight on.
Perhaps take the time to watch the documentary film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann to hear some of the indifference and complicity from Poles and their attitudes towards Jews.
Also worth a watch, the film Ida, by Pawl Pawlikowksi, tells the story of a novice nun meeting up with her aunt, thereby discovering her own Jewish parentage and the betrayal of her family by people they had thought were friends.
Further, the BBC aired a documentary series which exposed the complicity of Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians in rounding up and killing the Jewish population.
In fact, it was the case that in every single occupied country, the Nazis found willing allies to support the extermination of Jewry.
Did you read the part where I mentioned there were anti-Semitic elements in Poland, like every other European nation? A great many willing Jews were found to police and assist in the Holocaust, but somehow this is seen as different. Kapo has become a word to describe ‘bad Jews’ and not to smear the Jews as a whole. Curious. Perhaps a similar word can be found to describe bad Poles, Lithuanians etc that separates them from the rest. I doubt there is much will to do so from those who seek racialist ends.
I have found it curious precisely why diaspora communities have a particularly nasty view towards Poland vs all the other WW2 occupied nations. Particularly since occupied state collaboration eg in France was far more blatant. You also don't see anywhere the same level of historical resentment toward eg Hungarians.
One of my theories is that there was a greater survivorship amongst Eastern European Jews and memory of anti-semitism they experienced was preserved and passed to their children - whereas the fates of those deported to the death camps from other occupied nations was a much more complete murder.
What Eisenberg is doing may seem ham-fisted but I've read about his reasoning and it sounds like its positive.
Machiavelli has a line on this: “Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”
Not that the injury in this case needed to be done but as an observation it applies.
R.E the Hungarians, Horthy and Kállay did their best to protect Jews and argued constantly against the Germans and the Hungarian fascists. Only when the country was invaded did the massacres occur. There was certainly anti-Semitic laws before that but as I said before, this was very common and shouldn’t be rolled in with the Holocaust.
In Lanzmann's documentary, we discover that the kapos were selected from Jews who had been sent to the camps, on the basis of being fit to work. I had previously regarded them as willing volunteers, but in reality it was yet another calculated manifestation of cruelty. The 'bad' others were straightforward haters of Jews; no need for a new word.
6 million Poles died during WWII. 3 million were Jewish Poles, 3 million were Non-Jewish Poles. Unlike other European countries which were occupied by the Nazis any suspected of assisting their Jewish neighbours, friends, colleagues the entire family of the person who helped would be killed. And yet Poles did help their Jewish neighbours. The highest # of citizens identified as "The Righteous among Nations" are citizens from Poland. Polish Jews fought in the Resistance, at the battle of Monte Casino (where my Dad who was sent to Siberia due to Russia invasion of Poland), and many other battles. Yes there was antisemitism as it existed across Europe. Were there people who sold out their neighbours in Poland - yes probably as they did this for both Polish Jews and Polish non-Jews in their quest to survive against both Nazi and Stalin/Russian terror? Remember Poland and all its people were invaded by both Hitler and Stalin where they divided up the country and reduced all its people as slaves to adhere to the chosen people - Germans and Russians. I don't agree with some of past Polish govt policies where they tried to criminalize anyone bad mouthing what Poland did or didn't do.during WWII. You do have to take a pause and try to understand some of the background on how this misguided policy came about where despite the contributions of Poles to overcome Nazi terror in the various battles across Europe, Poles were not allowed to speak of it, participate in Victory parades or the terror they endured as it may have offend a new ally - Stalin and Russia. We all know how well that played out. I am a strong supporter of Israel and my Jewish friends and colleagues. I'm doing my best to learn more about Jewish culture, history, traditions, perspectives since the atrocities of Oct. 7. My hope is that you too try to learn a bit more about Polish history before painting the whole nation as a country of anti-Semites.
Based on what you write and how you write it, I am convinced that someone is paying you to fuel anti-Semitism. It's easy to look through. You can't involve us in these games.
Totally agree! Unfortunately I doubt the author will amend their views. Don’t you know all those evil Europeans do is harm and kill Jews and even have the temerity to marry them without converting? God forbid anyone suggest there isn’t a vast difference between a Jew and a European (ignore all the European genes being discovered in Ashkenazi Jews).
😂😂😂 there IS a vast difference, much as a creepy little Nazi-glorifying goy schmuck like yourself would like to pretend there isn’t. Enjoy your white supremacy, darling. And don’t forget— the Jews will replace you! 💩💩💩
This is because like media and government, Hollywood is Luciferian dominated and controlled,including "Jewish" Hollywood.
I don't personally believe it's possible to serve HaSatan and be a Jew,regardless of ethnic heritage,but plenty pass as such,despite blatant contempt for the Covenant.
Re Eisenberg's sense of finding his fellow Poles....bully for him. Not for nothing did Mr. E act in a play with virulent antisemtic antizionist....life long...St. Vanessa of the Redgrave. I have rejected this business ..when asked, "no that's your religion...I mean what are you?" from people. I encountered antisemitism in my life. so I embraced being Jewish ethnic and not "Russian" long ago. My brother the opposite. Yes, Mr. E shows his ignorance over and over. Another honorable mention for showing a Jewish woman as crude and disgusting...Heartbreak Kid 1972 "ONE of The YeAR's BEST! ....featuring Jeanie Berlin (Jewish) as the disgusting egg salad smeared wife of a Jewish actor Charles Groden vs the wasp beautiful ice princess Cybil Shephard....that film is old....I was young...it really pissed me off ....this horrible film was nominated for academy awards....too bad Birth of a Nation wasn't in time for the Oscars.
Wow. sorry I'd overlooked this in my in box.....how many films that feature Jewish characters write the Jewish characters as awful. And the screen play is by an asajew. I wouldn't see Munich because Kushner a very vocal anti Zionist wrote it. RE Kushener...I did finally see Angels in America with a brit Jewish or part Jewish actor? I sighed a sigh of relief ...but after 12 hours in the last gasp of the play he included in the Jewish character's mouth an anti Zionist barb. With seconds to go before the curtain. What a wag that Kushner is. My other objection is the woman so very British and gentile to play a Brooklyn Ashkenazi Jew RBG. Couldn't even throw it to Scarlet Johanson. The Pianist...good film ...about a very very assimilated Polish Jew whose "race" made him a pariah no matter his pretense of being civilized by German standards of "pretense of civilization" for example of the German Jews. Yes, TCM included Sophies Choice for their Holocaust film night. Timothy Chalamet DID NOT wear Jewface like Bradley Cooper....so cute....unlike the real Zimmerman....he looks cute enough and ethnic in early photographs...but not Chalamet cute...is he part Jewish? Probaby will win. Yes Hollywood may be dominated by Jews by asajews but like during the HOlocaust like the NY Times ....almost no Jewish characters almost no Holocaust acknowledgement. One I watched on TCM ...I believe Margaret Sullavan is the Jewess....again so scrubbed of their Jewish identity.....for which they are running for their lives....sorry, forget the film's title....I could go on....YOUR post is excellent,. Hurray for Hollywood!
Thanks for putting together this scathing indictment of Hollywood's pathetic attempts to tell the stories of the Holocaust. Your contempt and disdain are fully justified.
Hollywood has had a woke view on all things Jewish for decades It is very uncomfortable with Jewish values and traditions except to be shown as relics of life in a ghetto of its imagination
This is an excellent post. I do have some of my own caveats though (of course since this is a jewish substack we all always have alot to say)
The Devil's Arithmetic I found to be a good book and a good movie. It didnt really bother me that they had Kirsten Dunst played the main character. There are plenty of blond Jews in the world. I thought its portrayal of the camp was quite telling for young children. It is truly brutal. (the author of the script is one of the few really good Jews in Hollywood, orthodox Jew and proud zionist) I have to tell a secret, for years after reading the book and watching the movie my oldest refused to open the door for Elijah afraid he would be transported back to Poland 1939. (yes he had/has a vivid imagination, he also minored in holocaust studies in college)
I also have no interest in watching any of these movies, the Brutalist or that nonsense with Eisenberg. I watched him on Maher and he is so incredibly stupid and ignorant of jewish history its revolting. Maher is generally right on target about everything, including defending Jews and Israel. So I will cut him some slack with making fun of the nazi salute. That was his error for the season. And I will continue to watch Bill Maher, people are allowed a few errors in life.
Hollywood simply makes me sick and most of the Jews in Hollywood are pathetic. I think we can name the good ones by counting on 1 hand and losing a finger and thumb (Gal Gadot may be the only Jewish actor worth anything in that industry)
Yes,that's it,Covenant keeping Jews versus Luciferian Poseurs.
What Nazi solute?
Did u watch Mahers show last Friday? His opening monologue.
Fantastic, thank you
Thank you for reviewing these films. Now I know what to avoid watching. So much for the canard that Jews control Hollywood. Hollywood is actually overtly antisemitic. And the Jews who are in Hollywood are self-loathing, anti-Jewish, anti-Israel POS's with very few exceptions. The far-right antisemites who complain about Hollywood i.e. Jews are too damn stupid to even realize they are on the same side as them regarding Jews and Israel.
Thank you so much for your interesting article......Could not agree more with your pain and disgust about the recent Hollywood Holocaust !!!......we Jews know extremely well about the Holocaust.....nevertheless, there were two excellent movies The Pianist and Defiance......
Both of those films were good.
It is difficult to respond to this correct diatribe against antisemitism and “correct” thinking about Jews.
A Real Pain was intellectually vacuous and insulting to the history of Jews in general.
There have been plenty of excellent movies about the Holocaust but Hollywood can’t recognize them. The Zone of Interest was inaccurate but maybe taught non Jews something. The Interrogation was intellectually and emotionally accurate but no one saw it.
I sent out to my self proclaimed progressive friends Screams before Silence but who watched it. In the same vein, Holocaust films in popular culture tell the same tales of Jews killed with no consequence. We’ve seen enough dead Jews but there is no moral follow through. I cry through these movies but non Jews just turn away.
A film like 1945, Hungarian with a universal message, will not be made in Hollywood nor seen by them. I don’t totally agree with the authors argument but I do agree with the deep seated indifference to truth hidden by violence as a moral equivalence to what has and continues to happen. I can watch the Walking Dead for that.
Well,here in 2025,it looks like the USA is becoming Orbanicized very quickly,so maybe a little appreciation may slip through for an honest appraisal as Best Foreign Film.
It's hard to say,the Luciferians are deeply entrenched and I don't know what Trump can do to root Didn't Earn It out of the Oscars,but the change of wind direction may yet cause course correction.
To FoJ: Mallory Mosner is an excellent writer and, as evidenced by this piece, among the most insightful and thought provoking Jewish voices I’ve discovered on Substack. She needs to be amplified and glad to see you guys doing that.
You’re spot on about both of these films, Mallory, as well as the majority of Hollywood’s attempts to tell stories about the Holocaust, its victims, and Jews in general. We can certainly demand better of Hollywood, and we should, but I wouldn’t hold my breath given the sorry state of the industry.
The one thing to take a bit of comfort in — with respect to these two films at least — is that for all of the media’s swooning, combined they’ve probably sold less than 4 million tickets total worldwide — and I think it’s safe to assume that a lot of the same people are buying tickets for both films, so their cultural impact will be pretty insignificant.
Thank you so much, Jonathan! Can’t tell you how much that means 🙏🙏🙏💙
So glad it resonated, and I absolutely agree with you. After this year’s award ceremonies, they’ll be rightfully forgotten.
One thing needs pointing out to those falling over themselves praising The Brutalist. Anyone with the least architectural interest will immediately recognise the movie being blatantly based on the life of real life Hungaro-Jewish master Marcel Breuer. Unlike the tragic character Breuer fortuitously left Central Europe long before the war and became a star in the USA. So the Holocaust back-story seems tacked on for pathos rather than some deep element of the tortured genius plotline.
You’d be surprised how easily an unarmed population can be controlled and killed by an armed minority. The Nazis enacted the Holocaust, not the Poles. You can tell by the way that millions of Jews lived in Poland before the Germans invaded. The Poles, like every other ethnicity in Europe had anti-Semitic elements. Smearing an entire nation with the same brush is the tool of the demagogue. Although given the use of the nasty slur ‘shiksa’, I doubt this author gave much thought to any but their own people’s feelings.
The Poles have had a centuries long history of antisemitism, long before the Holocaust.
Everywhere in Europe had anti-Semitic heritage. Several countries literally expelled every Jew in their borders. Poland actually allowed them to live there. Was it perfect, no, such is life. That’s simply the way it was.
Some countries were worse than others. In Denmark, the King wore a star; in Italy they weren't that interested in rounding up their Jews; in France they were pretty quick to round up their Jews; in Poland they were absolutely complicit. It was good in Poland decades and decades before, but things changed. When things don't go well for a population, they have to blame someone.
The situations are not comparable. The fact Denmark even still had a king to wear a star shows how much leniency was given to them. Italy was an allied country, not an occupied zone! Funny how quickly some people forget how the Polish elite, the leaders of the country in every field were brutally massacred by Soviet and Nazi leadership. The remainder joined the resistance. So when you are talking about Poles, you are talking about those degraded elements who weren’t important enough to be killed or patriotic enough to fight on.
Perhaps take the time to watch the documentary film Shoah by Claude Lanzmann to hear some of the indifference and complicity from Poles and their attitudes towards Jews.
Also worth a watch, the film Ida, by Pawl Pawlikowksi, tells the story of a novice nun meeting up with her aunt, thereby discovering her own Jewish parentage and the betrayal of her family by people they had thought were friends.
Further, the BBC aired a documentary series which exposed the complicity of Latvians, Lithuanians, Ukrainians in rounding up and killing the Jewish population.
In fact, it was the case that in every single occupied country, the Nazis found willing allies to support the extermination of Jewry.
Did you read the part where I mentioned there were anti-Semitic elements in Poland, like every other European nation? A great many willing Jews were found to police and assist in the Holocaust, but somehow this is seen as different. Kapo has become a word to describe ‘bad Jews’ and not to smear the Jews as a whole. Curious. Perhaps a similar word can be found to describe bad Poles, Lithuanians etc that separates them from the rest. I doubt there is much will to do so from those who seek racialist ends.
I have found it curious precisely why diaspora communities have a particularly nasty view towards Poland vs all the other WW2 occupied nations. Particularly since occupied state collaboration eg in France was far more blatant. You also don't see anywhere the same level of historical resentment toward eg Hungarians.
One of my theories is that there was a greater survivorship amongst Eastern European Jews and memory of anti-semitism they experienced was preserved and passed to their children - whereas the fates of those deported to the death camps from other occupied nations was a much more complete murder.
What Eisenberg is doing may seem ham-fisted but I've read about his reasoning and it sounds like its positive.
Machiavelli has a line on this: “Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”
Not that the injury in this case needed to be done but as an observation it applies.
R.E the Hungarians, Horthy and Kállay did their best to protect Jews and argued constantly against the Germans and the Hungarian fascists. Only when the country was invaded did the massacres occur. There was certainly anti-Semitic laws before that but as I said before, this was very common and shouldn’t be rolled in with the Holocaust.
In Lanzmann's documentary, we discover that the kapos were selected from Jews who had been sent to the camps, on the basis of being fit to work. I had previously regarded them as willing volunteers, but in reality it was yet another calculated manifestation of cruelty. The 'bad' others were straightforward haters of Jews; no need for a new word.
6 million Poles died during WWII. 3 million were Jewish Poles, 3 million were Non-Jewish Poles. Unlike other European countries which were occupied by the Nazis any suspected of assisting their Jewish neighbours, friends, colleagues the entire family of the person who helped would be killed. And yet Poles did help their Jewish neighbours. The highest # of citizens identified as "The Righteous among Nations" are citizens from Poland. Polish Jews fought in the Resistance, at the battle of Monte Casino (where my Dad who was sent to Siberia due to Russia invasion of Poland), and many other battles. Yes there was antisemitism as it existed across Europe. Were there people who sold out their neighbours in Poland - yes probably as they did this for both Polish Jews and Polish non-Jews in their quest to survive against both Nazi and Stalin/Russian terror? Remember Poland and all its people were invaded by both Hitler and Stalin where they divided up the country and reduced all its people as slaves to adhere to the chosen people - Germans and Russians. I don't agree with some of past Polish govt policies where they tried to criminalize anyone bad mouthing what Poland did or didn't do.during WWII. You do have to take a pause and try to understand some of the background on how this misguided policy came about where despite the contributions of Poles to overcome Nazi terror in the various battles across Europe, Poles were not allowed to speak of it, participate in Victory parades or the terror they endured as it may have offend a new ally - Stalin and Russia. We all know how well that played out. I am a strong supporter of Israel and my Jewish friends and colleagues. I'm doing my best to learn more about Jewish culture, history, traditions, perspectives since the atrocities of Oct. 7. My hope is that you too try to learn a bit more about Polish history before painting the whole nation as a country of anti-Semites.
Lmao I know plenty about Polish history, you condescending Nazi simp. Get fucked 🗑️
Based on what you write and how you write it, I am convinced that someone is paying you to fuel anti-Semitism. It's easy to look through. You can't involve us in these games.
Totally agree! Unfortunately I doubt the author will amend their views. Don’t you know all those evil Europeans do is harm and kill Jews and even have the temerity to marry them without converting? God forbid anyone suggest there isn’t a vast difference between a Jew and a European (ignore all the European genes being discovered in Ashkenazi Jews).
😂😂😂 there IS a vast difference, much as a creepy little Nazi-glorifying goy schmuck like yourself would like to pretend there isn’t. Enjoy your white supremacy, darling. And don’t forget— the Jews will replace you! 💩💩💩
Thought provoking stuff,thanks !
This is because like media and government, Hollywood is Luciferian dominated and controlled,including "Jewish" Hollywood.
I don't personally believe it's possible to serve HaSatan and be a Jew,regardless of ethnic heritage,but plenty pass as such,despite blatant contempt for the Covenant.
Re Eisenberg's sense of finding his fellow Poles....bully for him. Not for nothing did Mr. E act in a play with virulent antisemtic antizionist....life long...St. Vanessa of the Redgrave. I have rejected this business ..when asked, "no that's your religion...I mean what are you?" from people. I encountered antisemitism in my life. so I embraced being Jewish ethnic and not "Russian" long ago. My brother the opposite. Yes, Mr. E shows his ignorance over and over. Another honorable mention for showing a Jewish woman as crude and disgusting...Heartbreak Kid 1972 "ONE of The YeAR's BEST! ....featuring Jeanie Berlin (Jewish) as the disgusting egg salad smeared wife of a Jewish actor Charles Groden vs the wasp beautiful ice princess Cybil Shephard....that film is old....I was young...it really pissed me off ....this horrible film was nominated for academy awards....too bad Birth of a Nation wasn't in time for the Oscars.
Wow. sorry I'd overlooked this in my in box.....how many films that feature Jewish characters write the Jewish characters as awful. And the screen play is by an asajew. I wouldn't see Munich because Kushner a very vocal anti Zionist wrote it. RE Kushener...I did finally see Angels in America with a brit Jewish or part Jewish actor? I sighed a sigh of relief ...but after 12 hours in the last gasp of the play he included in the Jewish character's mouth an anti Zionist barb. With seconds to go before the curtain. What a wag that Kushner is. My other objection is the woman so very British and gentile to play a Brooklyn Ashkenazi Jew RBG. Couldn't even throw it to Scarlet Johanson. The Pianist...good film ...about a very very assimilated Polish Jew whose "race" made him a pariah no matter his pretense of being civilized by German standards of "pretense of civilization" for example of the German Jews. Yes, TCM included Sophies Choice for their Holocaust film night. Timothy Chalamet DID NOT wear Jewface like Bradley Cooper....so cute....unlike the real Zimmerman....he looks cute enough and ethnic in early photographs...but not Chalamet cute...is he part Jewish? Probaby will win. Yes Hollywood may be dominated by Jews by asajews but like during the HOlocaust like the NY Times ....almost no Jewish characters almost no Holocaust acknowledgement. One I watched on TCM ...I believe Margaret Sullavan is the Jewess....again so scrubbed of their Jewish identity.....for which they are running for their lives....sorry, forget the film's title....I could go on....YOUR post is excellent,. Hurray for Hollywood!