BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:402@amyisrael.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230327T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230327T190000 DTSTAMP:20230207T000812Z URL:https://www.amyisrael.org/events/the-history-of-antisemitism-kill-the- hollywood-jews-the-prewar-origins-of-film-noir-facilitated-by-howard-schic kler/ SUMMARY:The History of Antisemitism – Kill the Hollywood Jews: The Prewar Origins of Film Noir\, facilitated by Howard Schickler DESCRIPTION:The next stop on our Random Walk through Jewish History and Cul ture will be pre-War Hollywood and the efforts of Jews working in Hollywoo d to fight the Nazis starting in 1933.\n\nVia zoom - visit our secure webs ite to get the link\n\nHoward Schickler\, who will be facilitating the pre sentation has gathered materials about those efforts and the interactions between Hollywood studios and the Nazi regime in Germany. If you are inter ested in the program and would like to receive those materials please let Howard know by clicking here.\n\nIf you have already indicated interest th ere is no need to inform Howard again.\n\nWhen Nazi plans were learned and promptly ignored by local and federal authorities in Los Angeles\, a numb er of Jews working in Hollywood secretly funded a spy ring that operated f rom August 1933 until the end of WWII. These spies uncovered a series of p lots aimed at attracting international attention to the Nazi cause and spa rking a wave of deadly pogroms throughout the U.S. The most nefarious plot involved blowing up the homes of twenty-four of Hollywood’s most famous figures\, twenty-two of whom were Jewish. Many aspects of film noir\, the genre borne out of 1930s and ’40s Lost Angeles\, reflect these experien ces\, along with witnessing corrupt officials and crime unpunished\, and t he experiences of a post-war sense of dread.\n\nLearn these incredible sto ries with historian Steven J. Ross. Steven J. Ross is Distinguished Profes sor of History at the University of Southern California and director of th e Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life. His most recent book\, Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Again st Hollywood and America was selected as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History for 2018\; it was also on the Los Angeles Times Bestseller Lis t for 23 weeks. His previous book\, Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie St ars Shaped American Politics\, received the Academy of Motion Pictures Art s and Sciences’ Film Scholars Award and was selected by the New York Tim es Book Review as a “Recommended Summer Readings” for 2012. Ross’ Op -Ed pieces have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, International Herald-Tribune\, Hollywood Reporter\, Huff ington Post\, Daily Beast\, and Politico. He has lectured throughout the U .S. as well as in London\, Paris\, Sydney\, Auckland\, Jerusalem\, and Tel Aviv. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.amyisrael.org/wp-content/uploads/202 3/02/History-of-Antisemitism-Hollywood-Jews-1200x600-1-400x400-1.jpg CATEGORIES:Adult Ed and Programs,Featured END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR