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September 26, 2024

A New Holocaust Film Mentions Jews Only Once

And it’s not alone.

One subject of the above-linked conversation between Reynolds and Novick is the Christian discomfort with the particularism of Jewish self-understanding, and the different ways Christian theologians have responded to its presence in the Old Testament. Perhaps the impulse of some Christians to erase Jewish distinctiveness in favor of universal messages is behind the phenomenon Dave Rich notices in the film Lee. Opening in American cinemas tomorrow, the movie tells the story of Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, a photojournalist who covered World War II for Vogue. Rich writes:

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