A Year in Reading: Merve Emre
Sifting through text messages, emails, and the letters scattered around my office, I pieced together a calendar of books and the people who made them matter.
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Speculative Evidence: Ben Urwand’s The Collaboration
It is the unholy alliance of Hitler and Mickey that tees up Urwand’s central claim: from 1933 to 1939, the Jewish moguls who ran Hollywood’s studio system “collaborated” with the Nazi regime, censoring and even quashing films that represented the German state in a negative light.
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