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Steven Spielberg: The Director Who Found His Jewish Soul
He created Jaws, E.T., and Indiana Jones — the most commercially successful films in history. Then Steven Spielberg made Schindler's List, turned down his salary, and founded the Shoah Foundation to record 55,000 Holocaust survivor testimonies. It was the moment he became who he was always meant to be.
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The Jews Who Built Hollywood: Immigrants, Dreams, and the Silver Screen
A handful of Eastern European Jewish immigrants — furriers, glove salesmen, scrap dealers — created the Hollywood studio system and, in the process, invented the American Dream as we know it. They built an industry, a mythology, and a nation's self-image.
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