Understanding Anti-Semitism from a Neglected Film and Novel

A little known 1940 film starring Margaret Sullavan, Jimmy Stewart, and Frank Morgan is perhaps Hollywood’s most successful attempt to dramatize the nature of antisemitism and the Nazi effort to institutionalize it in the 1930s. Former Foreign Service Officer Donald Bishop believes a revival of this long-overlooked movie could offer us a better understanding of the explosion of antisemitism unleashed by the terrorist attacks on Israel of October 7, 2023.