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Click photo to download. Caption: Al Jolson, star of "The Jazz Singer." Credit: “Al Jolson – a Biography,” 1916.

The High Holidays in Jewish cinema

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When cinema was still in its youth, Hollywood built a story around the High Holidays. Its tale was a measure of Jewry’s ties to tradition, but also a gentle sign of its loss. In The Jazz...