February 17, 2016

Steve Lipman’s informative article, “Jerry Lewis’ Unseen Holocaust Comedy Brought To Light” (Jan. 15), made
me aware that the comedian undertook, but never completed, a film titled “The Day The Clown Cried.” I found it fascinating that Lewis chose comedy
as a way to explore such a dark and tragic subject. 
As a journalist and a medical […]

“Depictions of Jews in popular culture were rare sightings?” (“No Direction
Home: ‘Fiddler’s’ Lessons,” Feb. 5.) Not on the screen of the 1920s and early
1930s. Al Jolson and Molly Picon were as clearly Jewish in their public faces
as Adam Sandler and Sarah Silverman are today. “The Cohens and Kellys”
begat six sequels about its intermarried families. Max […]