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HOLLYWOOD AND ANTI-SEMITISM: A CULTURAL HISTORY UP TO WORLD WAR II Steven Alan Carr Cambridge University Press Hollywood and Anti-Semitism Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II exam- ineshowthepublicperceivedAmericanJewsintheentertainmentindustry from the turn of the century to the outbreak of World War II. Eastern EuropeanJewishimmigrantsareoftencreditedwithbuildingafilmindustry during the first decade of the twentieth century and dominating it by the 1920s. In this study, Steven Carr reconceptualizes Jewish participation in HollywoodbyexaminingprevalentattitudestowardJewsamongAmerican audiences. Analogous to the Jewish Question of the nineteenth century, which was concerned with the full participation of Jews within the sphere of public life, the Hollywood Question of the twenties, thirties,andforties addressed the Jewish population within mass media. This ground-breaking study reveals the powerful set of assumptions about ethnicity and media influenceasitrelatedtotheroleoftheJewinthemotionpictureindustry. Steven Alan Carr is associate professor of communication at IndianaUni- versity–PurdueUniversityFortWayne.HehascontributedtoSharedDiffer- ences:MulticulturalMediaandPracticalPedagogyandJewishWomeninAmer- ica,amongotherpublications. This Page Intentionally Left Blank CambridgeStudiesintheHistoryofMassCommunication General Editors Kenneth Short, University of Houston Garth Jowett, University of Houston David Culbert, Louisiana State University Cambridge Studies in the Historyof MassCommunicationincludesbooksthat examine the communications processes and communications systems withinsocial,cultural,andpoliticalcontexts.Inclusiveofempirical,effects- basedresearch,worksinthisseriesproceedfromthebasisthatthehistories of various media are an important means to understanding their role and function in society. The history of a medium – its pattern of introduction, diffusion, acceptance, and effects–variesineachsociety,interactingwith, andinturnshaping,itsculture.Moreover,eachsocietyreactsdifferentlyto the introduction of a medium, and regulatory policies are shaped by both political and cultural forces. Thedetailedstudyofvariouscommunications forms and their complex message systems is now understood to be the key tounravelingtheevolutionofmodernsocietyanditsculture. OtherbooksintheSeries: U.S.TelevisionNewsandColdWarPropaganda,1947–1960 byNancyBernhard SouthAfrica’sAlternativePressbyLesSwitzer PropagandaandDemocracybyJ.MichaelSproule Hollywood’sOverseasCampaign:TheNorthAtlanticMovieTrade, 1920–1950byIanJarvie RonaldReaganinHollywood:MoviesandPoliticsbyStephenVaughn HollywoodCensored:MoralityCodes,Catholics,andtheMovies byGregoryBlack ChildrenandtheMovies:MediaInfluenceandthePayneFundControversy byGarthJowett,IanJarvie,andKathrynFuller TheMakingofAmericanAudiencesbyRichardButsch This Page Intentionally Left Blank HOLLYWOOD AND A N T I - S E M I T I S M A CULTURAL HISTORY UP TO WORLD WAR II Steven Alan Carr IndianaUniversity– PurdueUniversityFortWayne PUBLISHED BY CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (VIRTUAL PUBLISHING) FOR AND ON BEHALF OF THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IRP 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia http://www.cambridge.org © Cambridge University Press 2001 This edition © Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) 2003 First published in printed format 2001 A catalogue record for the original printed book is available from the British Library and from the Library of Congress Original ISBN 0 521 57118 9 hardback Original ISBN 0 521 79854 X paperback ISBN 0 511 01253 5 virtual (netLibrary Edition) ForNancy,Maxine,andWilliam This Page Intentionally Left Blank Contents ListofIllustrations pagexi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction:WhatIstheHollywoodQuestion? 1 Part1:TheHollywoodQuestionandAmerican Anti-Semitism,1880–1929 1 Anti-SemitismandtheAmericanJewishQuestion 23 2 Religion,Race,andMoralityintheHollywoodQuestion 60 Part2:TheHollywoodQuestionforaNewAmerica, 1929–1941 3 ANewDealfortheHollywoodQuestion 97 4 TheHollywoodQuestioninPopularCulture 132 5 ThePoliticsoftheHollywoodQuestion 154 6 AnsweringtheHollywoodQuestion 182 Part3:TheHollywoodQuestion,1941andBeyond 7 PopularCultureAnswerstheHollywoodQuestion 217 8 TheHollywoodQuestioninCrisis,1941 238 9 TheNewHollywoodQuestion 278 Notes 293 Bibliography 325 Index 337 ix
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