Storyboarding the American Dream: Jews and the History of Hollywood

Learn how the Jewish identity of the industry’s prominent moguls was a key ingredient in the way in which Hollywood formed, developed, and flourished in the first half of the 20th century. It is no coincidence that it was a small group of Eastern European immigrants (with names like Zukor and Mayer) and first-generation Americans (with names like Warner and Cohn) who took the movies from being dismissed as a fad and a petty amusement to being hailed as a major art form and a mighty industry

.The event is co sponsored by Federation, WCA and MCA