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By Howard Jacobson
To insist only a Jew should play a Jew, is to consent to a demeaning stereotype
By David Baddiel
Yet again, a major movie has cast a non-Jew to play a famous Jew. This may be part of a deeper erasure of Jews — and antisemitism — going on under the surface of storytelling
While he tried his best to assimilate, J Robert Oppenheimer's faith was a constant theme throughout his career
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