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June 3, 2024

Hollywood’s Crisis of Jewish Masculinity

A rogues’ gallery of profoundly unlikeable characters.

Analyzing the 1970 film I Love My Wife, and its obviously Jewish leading man Elliot Gould, Michael Weingrad observes an “uncomfortable obfuscation of a certain kind of sociological Jewishness” found in other movies of the era:

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June 3, 2024

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  5. Hollywood’s Crisis of Jewish Masculinity

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