Hollywood is an industry whose roots are, like IsraelвЂ™s, in the heroic and sometimes self-negating efforts of a small band of Eastern European Jewish immigrants who believed themselves to be imposing their will on an arid landscape. Hollywood and Israel: A History, Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman, Columbia University Press, 368 pp., $30.00, March 2022 The next year, when Israel became a state, Robinson-the Jewish star of 1930s gangster pictures like Little Caesar-read the countryвЂ™s Declaration of Independence at a rally at the Hollywood Bowl, including its clarion call for вЂњfull social and political equality of all its citizens without distinction of race, creed, or sex.вЂќ In supporting the Zionist cause after the war, they perhaps wondered about who might have been saved from the inferno of Europe by the existence of a Jewish homeland. Army Signal Corps documentary crew, filming the liberation of Dachau and the countless dead left behind there writer and director Billy Wilder ( Some Like It Hot) had fled Berlin ahead of the Nazis, leaving behind his mother, stepfather, and grandmother, all of whom were murdered in concentration camps. This was a collective cause du jour-whither the European Jewish refugees?-that was also a matter of the utmost personal relevance to many of the luminaries who affixed their names.Дirector George Stevens ( Swing Time) had spent the war years as the head of a U.S. Robinson to director William Wyler, whose film about returning veterans, The Best Years of Our Lives, had won the Oscar for Best Picture the previous year. The signatories included many of the luminaries of Hollywood, from singer Frank Sinatra and actor Edward G. President Harry TrumanвЂ™s efforts to encourage the British government to accept increased Jewish immigration to Palestine.

film industryвЂ™s trade publication, Variety, saluting then-U.S. In 1947, a full-page advertisement ran in the U.S.

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