Vanity Fair providing @TOOEdit material: "There haven’t been this many Jewish-themed shows on the small screen since the late 1970s and ’80s, when networks aired miniseries like Holocaust, Masada, The Winds of War, and its sequel, War and Remembrance." https://twitter.com/Sasa_Adamovic/status/1247896166626254851
Classic obfuscation of identity / anti-national coalition-building in The Plot Against America: 'Roth wanted to deemphasize [the protagnist family's] background—but anyone who’s Jewish will instantly recognize the Levins as landsmen.'
'For [director David] Simon too—a self-described “less-than-observant” Jew—the story is a wider allegory about an “anti-immigrant impulse that can be easily metastasized by political demagogues” who question newcomers’ politics and loyalty.'
"There’s been a huge uptick in anti-Semitic hate crimes in the U.S. over the past five years, according to the FBI.. in an era when only 45% of U.S adults know that six million Jews died in the Holocaust, according to a Pew Research Center survey published in January."
"[Hunters] creator David Weil has said the gory, tongue-in-cheek series was inspired by his grandmother, a survivor of both the Auschwitz-Birkenau & Bergen-Belsen concentrations camps:"
“I used the lens of 1977 America to speak about the kind of racism and xenophobia and anti-Semitism that we’re continuing to face today.”
“I’m putting in just enough to make them Jewish Americans,” said Simon—emphasis on Americans. Otherwise, “it provides a credible support for what Lindbergh, and by extension Rabbi Bengelsdorf, is saying: that Jews’…loyalty is open to question.”
Fantastically grotesque Jewish fantasies of Nazi sadism are "representationally truthful" to history.
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