Hollywood’s Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History #11)

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The remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in the 1930s.Finalist, Celebrate 350 Award in American Jewish Studies The 1939 film Confessions of a Nazi Spy may have been the first cinematic shot fired by Hollywood against Nazis in America, but it by no means marked the political awakening of the film industry&’s Jewish executives to the problem. Hollywood&’s Spies tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who paid private investigators to infiltrate Nazi groups operating in Los Angeles, establishing the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country—the Los Angeles Jewish Community Committee (LAJCC). Drawing on more than 15,000 pages of archival documents, Laura B. Rosenzweig offers a compelling narrative illuminating the role that Jewish Americans played in combating insurgent Nazism in the United States in the 1930s. Forced undercover by the anti-Semitic climate of the decade, the LAJCC partnered with organizations whose Americanism was unimpeachable, such as the American Legion, to channel information regarding seditious Nazi plots to Congress, the Justice Department, the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department.Hollywood&’s Spies corrects the decades-long belief that American Jews lacked the political organization and leadership to assert their political interests during this period in our history and reveals that the LAJCC was one of many covert &“fact finding&” operations funded by Jewish Americans designed to root out Nazism in the United States. &“A remarkable tale.&” —The Wall Street Journal &“Expose[s] a buried story about underground plots waged by Nazis against major Hollywood figures.&” —Los Angeles Review of Books
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2017

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Book Size:
320 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781479882472
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9781479855179
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NYU Press
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New York University Press
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Politics and Government
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