Jews

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Jews American Culture
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Popular Culture Today Yesterday

• What are the main ways you get information about
  whats going on in the world?
• What are some of you favorite sources for
  entertainment?
• Why do these media have such a big impact on our
  lives?

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Radio Background

• Major means of mass communication
• Influenced peoples view of the world
• Introduced people to things outside of their
  experience.

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Radio Important People

• David Sarnoff (1891-1971)
• Russian Jew
• 1st to envision wireless in every home
• Helped create NBC
• William S. Paley (1901-1990)
• American-born
• Cigar maker
• Became President of CBS at 27

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Jews on the Radio

• The Rise of the Goldbergs (1929-1945)
• Written by Gertrude Berg
• About Jewish immigrant family
• Religious Programs
• Church of the Air
• Message of Israel
• The Eternal Light

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Comic Books Background

• M.C. Gaines
• 1st comic book
• Reprints of strips from newspapers
• New stories for comic books
• Young, inexperienced, and/or Jewish
• Often rip offs of newspaper strips

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Superman

• Jerry Siegel Joe Schuster
• 1933 comic book
• 1940 radio
• Not overtly Jewish, but Jewish themes
• Joseph Goebbels

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Batman

• Bob Kane Bill Finger
• DC Comics
• Debuted in Detective Comics 27

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Movies

• Hollywood An Empire of Their Own
• Watch for
• Differences between films of Jews and non-Jews
• Themes of Jewish films
• Examples of anti-Semitism
• Reaction to the Holocaust
• The Red Scare