Nathan Abrams
Spielberg’s Schindler’s List destroyed the long-planned Kubrick Shoah film
The landmark movie, which was released 30 years ago this month, also led to a new genre of Holocaust films
Obituary: Piper Laurie
Defiant independent actress who challenged Hollywood’s simple, sexual roles
Preserving Welsh history as the only Jew in the village
While the study of the Jewish past in the principality is vibrant, its Jewish presence is not
Welcome to Jewrassic Park — Spielberg’s first Nazi parable
Thirty years ago, the now legendary director released his dinosaur movie, echoing the Nazi ‘Museum of an Extinct Race’
The secret Jewish roots of Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones and the very Jewish adventure
Obituary: Gerald Fried
Film and TV composer who helped Stanley Kubrick transition from still images into motion pictures
Obituary: David Gold and Jacqueline Gold
Frustrated footballer turned porn tycoon who co-chaired West Ham and his daughter, the Ann Summers boss who introduced the allure of sex, fantasy and fun to her all-female clientele
Seinfeld at 25: How it gave us a golden age of TV Jews
The iconic sitcom's legacy is the proliferation of Jewish characters on every network comedy in the US
Is The Big Lebowski’s Walter the greatest Jewish character?
The Coen brothers’ masterpiece was released 25 years ago — and its leading man is unique among Jewish characters on film
Obituary: Keith Levene
Avant-garde Clash guitarist who formed key part of the history of Jews in punk
Obituary: Gerald Stern
New Jersey’s agnostic Poet Laureate who fiercely believed in ‘the idea of the Jew’
40 years ago this month, the most Jewish film ever came out
Pretty much every aspect of Steven Spielberg’s ET resonates with Jews, making it a parable of our story, told by one of us, for us
Obituary: Bob Rafelson
Director who caught the anti-hero zeitgeist and set the benchmark for Hollywood cool
Obituary: James Caan
Bad-boy’ actor defined by his role as Sonny Corleone in classic mafia film The Godfather
Obituary: Monty Norman
Film composer whose electric guitar riff helped transform Ian Fleming’s English spy into international playboy James Bond
Why don’t people realise that Marilyn Monroe was Jewish?
A new film biography opens next week of the film star who converted when she married legendary playright Arthur Miller
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