When AMPAS opened the doors in September to its long-awaited institution, many industry leaders and donors were shocked at the lack of representation of the town’s immigrant pioneers. Amid cries of 'intellectual dishonesty,' insiders reveal what happened ('overcorrection due to wokeness') and plans to make good.
Goldwyn wasn’t alone in his displeasure. Haim Saban, who donated $50 million to the institution , has gone public with his view, along with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who attended the gala and later told: “As I walked through, I literally turned to the person I was there with and said to him, ‘Where are the Jews?’ “
Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which runs L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance, and himself a two-time Oscar winner , contends that to inaugurate an institution canonizing the film business in the absence of those who created it “is a form of intellectual discrimination. Without the Jewish leadership in Hollywood, there would be no Hollywood,” he says.
Today, due to assimilation, the moguls’ descendants typically are considered white, and even the once-pervasive professional Anglicization of stage names — still in evidence among the likes of Winona Ryder and Natalie Portman — has faded in younger generations. But this was not the world the founders inhabited.is a chronicle of the Jews who founded Hollywood. The author will consult with the Academy Museum on a new exhibit about the period.
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