In these contentious days of populist anti-immigrant hostility against alien cultures and religions, it is perhaps time to review and reflect upon one of my favorite documentaries. It tells the amazing story of a small group of impoverished immigrants and refugees from oppression who came to the United States and transformed American popular culture and Americans’ deepest self-image of themselves for generations in ways few understood. From the depths of poverty, they became some of the most successful and influential entrepreneurs in our history. They were the Jewish Hollywood moguls who founded and ran the motion picture industry. The background story of this film is based … Continue reading Hollywoodism