Entertaining America: Jews, Movies and Broadcasting

Organized by the Jewish Museum, New York
on view at JMM October 26, 2003 – January 18, 2004

Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting offers a selective look at a hundred years of American experience, from the silent-movie era to Seinfeld. The exhibition, organized by The Jewish Museum, New York, explores the various avenues of Jewish participation in the entertainment media—as audience members, entrepreneurs, creators, and icons—and reveals a multitude of changing attitudes toward both Jewish culture and popular culture.

Along the way, a series of “star shrines”—including installations created by artists Ben Katchor, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Rhonda Lieberman, and filmmaker Mark Rappaport—examine how fans have responded to the Jewishness, real or imagined, of icons such as Fanny Brice, Betty Boop, the Marx Brothers, John Garfield, Marilyn Monroe, and Barbra Streisand.

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