To Harvey Greenberg: Re your request for Neal Gabler's whereabouts, the
dust cover of my copy of An Empire Of Their Own - How The Jews Invented
Hollywood, indicates he lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York. He was born in
Chicago, and has taught at the University of Michigan and Pennsylvania
State U. The book was published by Crown Publishers Inc, 225, Park Avenue
South, New York, 10003. The copyright date was 1988. I hope these are
useful leads for you. Re the issue of Jewishness in Hollywood films, your
contention that the studio heads hid their ethnicity in favour of a "middle
America" approach is correct. Refer to my email of 3/3/99, 7.39 pm, to the
Bama group for more info on this. Or I could forward it to you if required.

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> From: Harvey R Greenberg Md <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: more Jewish medicos etc
> Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 12:20 PM
>
> to my previous post  addition   seem to have mislaid Neil Gabler's book
HOW
> THE JEWS INVENTED HOLLYWOOD   does anyone know where Gabler resides?
Also,
> can anyone  since I am under a deadline  reprise any remarks he may have
made
> about the actual presence of Jews as labelled characters  important or
> otherwise   prior to the Forties. My sense is that Mayer and company
projected
> a quotidian middle class image for their public which didnt contain
ethnics
> except perhaps as stereotypes  and certainly few if any Jews as main
> characters  labelled as such  of whatever professior  prior to the
Forties
> with the notable exception of THE JAZZ SINGER   anybody care to agree
> disagree   expand etc  again many thanks hr greenberg md endit
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