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Academy Museum Unveils Permanent Exhibit on Jewish Founders of Hollywood After Criticism
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures unveiled details of its exhibit Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital opening May 19.
“The American film industry began developing amid an influx of immigration to the United States by Jewish émigrés escaping European pogroms and poverty,” said Jaffe. “Most of Hollywood’s founders were among this wave of Jewish immigrants and recognized that the infant movie business presented an opportunity to raise their marginalized status in an industry that didn’t enforce the same antisemitic barriers as many other professions. “The film examines how antisemitism shaped the founders’ trajectories throughout their careers and how their projected vision of an immigrant’s American Dream came to define America itself on movie screens around the world,” the museum’s statement explained.
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