The inspirational story of the "Jewish Jackie Robinson," the six-foot-four Detroit Tiger first baseman and left fielder in the Thirties and Forties, a magnet at the time for ethnic slurs and a stronger magnet for ethnic pride. (The anecdote of an on-field run-in between the veteran Greenberg and the rookie …
Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald had a lot in common with black people. White America didn’t like him. This deferential doc tells his story. In his mind a fellow member of a “despised minority,” the Sears CEO and civil rights champion, among other things, joined forces with Booker T. Washington to …
Normally, it’s only when a celebrity documentary garners enough attention that it becomes fodder for a Hollywood biopic. Released this time last year, The Catcher Was a Spy starred Paul Rudd as Moe Berg, the inscrutable Jewish baseball veteran whose contribution to the war effort included spying on the Nazis …
Documentary disinterment of a half-forgotten (or more than half), and deservedly remembered, radio and television trailblazer, Gertrude Berg, the writer and star of the approachably ethnic sitcom, The Goldbergs. Her warmth emerges even through the degraded broadcast footage (only the final 1955 season comes through sharp and clear), the degradation …