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1947
Gentleman's Agreement is a 1947 American drama film based on Laura Z. Hobson's best-selling 1947 novel of the same title, directed by Elia Kazan. The film is about a journalist who pretends to be Jewish to research an exposé on the widespread antisemitism in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan and Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Academy Awards and won three: Best Picture, Best…
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Antisemitism is a word that has recently been mentioned a lot. Some would argue that it is abused in order to silence debates about some unpleasant topics and, like so many words describing similar dark phenomena of the 20th Century, has lost much of its meaning. But it still describes something that is as real today as it was centuries ago and which found its ultimate expression in the horrors of the Holocaust. Hol…More