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April 1, 2020

How One of Hollywood’s Leading Moguls Saved from Hitler Hundreds of Jews from His Birthplace

Carl Laemmle and the “boys from Laupheim.”

Born in the German city of Laupheim in 1911, Rudy Bergmann escaped the Third Reich for the U.S. in 1937, thanks largely to the fortunate fact that he shared a hometown with the founder of Universal Pictures. His son, the novelist and screenwriter Andrew Bergman, tells his story:

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April 1, 2020

  1. Most Palestinians Want to Cooperate with Israel to Fight the Coronavirus

    But many believe conspiracy theories about its origins.

  2. How Arab Rejectionism Encouraged the British to Arrive at an Early Version of the Two-State Solution

    The Peel Commission.

  3. The Fate of al-Qaeda’s Syrian Offshoot, and the Threat It Could Pose to Israel

    Syrian civil-war “alumni” could become a new generation of terrorists.

  4. What Were the Israelites Building in Egypt?

    Storehouses for the wealth of priests.

  5. How One of Hollywood’s Leading Moguls Saved from Hitler Hundreds of Jews from His Birthplace

    Carl Laemmle and the “boys from Laupheim.”