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Reading List READING LIST FILMS The films listed below either depict British Jews, or were popular with Jewish audiences. Whilst we have endeavoured to offer a comprehensive list it is by no means exhaustive and does not include the films featured in the timeline. Several of the films listed below are freely available to view at the BFI Mediatheque. EARLY DEPICTIONS OF JEWS IN BRITISH FILM Pre World War 1 A Bad Day for Levinsky (TJ Gobbett, 1909) [n/a] A Jewish man puts a sovereign in a slot machine by mistake. The Antique Vase (HO Martinek, 1913) [n/a] Artist helps old man swindle Jewish antique dealer. The Invaders (Percy Stow, 1909) [n/a] A group of foreign invaders occupy the house of a girls because it is in a strategic position, they are dressed as Jewish Tailors, reflecting fears of the large-scale immigration of eastern European Jews. Post World War 1 General Post (Thomas Bentley, 1920) [n/a] An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son’s life. The Wandering Jew (1923) [80 mins] A British silent fantasy film which follows the Story of a Jewish man condemned to wander aimlessly through the ages, one of the first sympathetic representation of Jews in British Cinema. Marriage of Miss Rose Carmel and Mr. Solly Gerschcowit (1925) [3.25 mins] One lucky couple’s big day is captured on 35mm. Motherland (G.B. Samuelson, 1927) [n/a] Silent Movie. A soldier poses as a dead captain to comfort his blind mother while a girl poses as a dead Jew’s wife to comfort his family. 1/7 Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (William Beaudine, 1935) [80mins] Jake Cohen, the owner of a department store (Graetz), goes on the road, and leaves it under the control of his children, only to have to return when they fight with each other on the eve of a worker’s strike. Car of Dreams (1935) [72mins] A tycoon’s son falls in love with a woman who works at his father’s factory. Pre World War 2 The Prime Minister (1941) [94mins] A depiction of the first and only Jewish Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, played by the legendary John Gielgud. Mr. Emmanuel (1944) [97mins] An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what’s really going on. Post World War 2 The Vanishing Street (1962) [20 mins] Change comes to the Jewish community of Hessel Street, in East London’s Whitechapel. The Evacuees (1975) [75 mins] Jack Rosenthal’s classic WWII drama about Jewish brothers evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool. CONTEMPORARY JEWISH FILMS Invisible City (1991) [20 mins] A Jewish couple find themselves transported to a dystopia where memory and history are outlawed in this sci-fi parable. Simon Magus (1999), [101mins] A Jewish man tries to revive his dwindling village by building a railway station next to it. The squire agrees to provide the land, on the condition that Dovid will read his poetry. A cunning business man is also interested in the land and he tries to compete using money and threats. Suzie Gold (Ric Cantor, 2000), [94mins] Breaking with the ideas of her traditionally orthodox family, Suzie falls in love with Darren, who happens not to be Jewish. She fears introducing him to her family because of their opposition to marrying outside of one’s faith. 2/7 The Man Who Cried (Sally Potter, 2000), [100mins] The film tells the story of a young Jewish girl who, after being separated from her father in Soviet Russia, grows up in England. Me Without You (Sandra Goldbacher, 2001), [107mins] This drama charts the development of the friendship between two young women, from very differ- ent backgrounds; Holly is Jewish and has an overprotective mother, while Marina has a mother who is much more laid back and her father is almost never around. Wondrous Oblivion (Paul Morrison, 2003), [106mins] Set in suburban south London in 1960, the film tells the story of David Wiseman who is the son of European Jewish immigrants, and his new next door neighbours, Dennis and his young daughter Judy who are West Indian immigrants. Shem/Name (Caroline Roboh, 2004), [93 mins] Daniel, a young and arrogant Londoner, is bored to death with his life. His Jewish grandmother asks him to go through Europe in order to find his grandfather’s grave. Not only will Daniel find his long lost grandfather’s trace, but he also will understand his deep-rooted Jewish culture. Sidney Turtlebaum (2008) [20 mins] Sir Derek Jacobi plays an eccentric gay Jewish man with an unsavory interest in funerals in this award-winning short. An Education (2009) [100mins] It is 1961, in London, Jenny Mellor is a 16-year-old schoolgirl is preparing for Oxford University when she meets a charming older man driving a Bristol 405, David Goldman, who pursues her romantically. POPULAR AMERICAN FILMS WITH JEWISH AUDIENCES Humoresque (1920) [60mins] Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon finds that people want more from him than just music. The Ten Commandments (1923) [136mins] A silent epic film. A biblical story of the Exodus and a modern story concerning two brothers and their respective views of the Ten Commandments. The Cohen and Kellys (1926) [80mins] The Cohens and Kellys presents two families, Jewish and Irish, living side by side in the poorer quarters of New York in a state of perpetual enmity. His People (1925) [93mins] 1925 silent film about a young, Jewish boxer growing up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 3/7 NOTABLE YIDDISH FILMS His Wife’s lover (1931) [80 mins] Billed as the “first Jewish musical comedy talking picture,” His Wife’s Lover stars the popular Yiddish theatre comedian Ludwig Satz in one of his only surviving film performance. Uncle Moses (M.Schwartz, 1932) [88mins] Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee’s teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer. Yiddle with his Fiddle (1936) [92 mins] A young woman posing as a man in a group of klezmer musicians in Poland. Greenfields (1937) [99mins] Along with Yiddle with his Fiddle, one of the most popular films in the Yiddish film canon The Golem (Julien Duviviers (1937) [95mins] A retelling of the Golem story in Yiddish. GERMAN FILMS - PRE- WORLD WAR 2 The Golem: How he came to the world (1920) [85mins] A silent horror film based on the story of the golem. The Ancient law (1923) [128mins] A German silent film. The son of an orthodox rabbi faces hostility from his father when he decides to become an actor. FILMS REPRESENTING ISRAEL A Daughter of Israel (1926) Young Palestine: Eretz Yisrael (Y.Ben Dov 19260 Land of Promise (Leman, 1934) Avodah (H. Lerski, 1935) The Refugee-Today and Tomorrow (1939) 4/7 MAJOR LITERARY ADAPTATIONS Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice (1916; 1919; 1927) Ivanhoe (1913) [n/a] An adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel. Daniel Deronda (1921) [n/a] An adaptation of the classic George Eliot novel. Jew Süss (1934) [108 mins] British film adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger’s historical novel. Olivier Twist (1948) [116mins] David Lean’s controversial take on the Dickens classic. Svengali (1954) [82mins] A Svengali hypnotises an artist’s model into becoming a great opera singer, but she struggles to escape from his powers. The Deadly Affair (1966) [115mins] John le Carre’s spy thriller, which hinges on evidence from a women who survived an extermination camp. ACADEMIC CITATIONS Abrams, N. (2010), ‘Hidden: Jewish Film in the United Kingdom, past and present’, Journal of European Popular Culture 1: 1, pp. 53–68, doi: 10.1386/ jepc.1.1.53_1 Abrams N. ‘Introduction: ‘Jews in British Cinema’, in ‘Jews in British Cinema’, special issue of Journal of European Popular Culture special issue 3:2 (November 2012): 111–15. Abrams N. ‘Almost the same, but not quite’: The Jewish Male Body in European Cinema’, in La piel en la palestra: estudios corporales II, ed. Alba del Pozo and Alba Serrano (Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Ediuoc, 2011): 105–13. Abrams N. ‘From Jesus to Jeremy: The Jewish Male Body on Screen’, in Mysterious skin: male bodies in contemporary cinema, ed. Santiago Fouz-Hernández (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2009): 15–29. Abrams N. “The New Jew in Film: exploring Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Cinema” (London: I.B.Tauris, 2012; New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012) 5/7 Abrams N. ‘Jews in British Cinema, Journal of European Popular Culture special issue 3:2 (2012). Ascheid, Antje (2006), ‘Safe Rebellions: Romantic Emancipation in the ‘Woman’s Heritage Film’, Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies 4,http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/index.aspx?is- sue=4&id=124 Last access July 2007. Epstein, Jan (2005), ‘Jewish Representation’, in Brian McFarlane and Anthony Slide (eds), The Encyclopedia of British Film, London: BFI/Methuen, p. 366. Gough-Yates, Kevin (1992), ‘Jews and Exiles in UK Cinema’, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, XXXVII, pp. 517–41. Ingber, Nahman (1971), ‘Motion Pictures’, Encyclopedia Judaica, Keter: Jerusalem, pp. 446–63. Kushner, Tony (1990), ‘The Impact of British Anti-Semitism, 1918–1945’, in David Cesarani (ed.), The Making of Modern Anglo-Jewry, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 191–208. Lewin, Judith (2008), ‘Semen, Semolina and Salt Water: The Erotic Jewess in Sandra Goldbacher’s The Governess’, in Nathan Abrams (ed.), Jews & Sex, Nottingham: Five Leaves, pp.
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