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10 Times Jews Got the Upper Hand on Nazis in Pop Culture

JL;DR SUMMARY Addressing the resurgence of Nazism and antisemitism, Leah Grisham highlights ten instances in pop culture where Jews triumph over Nazis. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish HumorMel BrooksNazismJewish ResistanceRevengeSatirePop CultureFilm And Literature

Places mentioned

Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"In this two-for-one comedy film, originally written and directed by American-German Jew Ernst Lubitsch (and then redone four decades later by Mel Brooks, who also stars in the film alongside Anne Bancroft), a Warsaw Theatre company becomes an unlikely source of anti-Nazi resistance and escape point for Jews fleeing Nazi-occupied Poland."
New York City, New York, United States
"The play they pick, Springtime for Hitler, is the brainchild of a deluded ex-Nazi soldier as a love letter to Hitler that reduces Hitler and Nazism into the laughingstock of NYC."
Prague, Prague, Hlavní mešto, Czechia
"Joe Kavalier, who made it out of Prague before the war, and his cousin Sammy Klayman create a popular comic book called The Escapist, about a hero who is constantly beating up Nazis (including Hitler himself)."
Palestinian Territories
"Switching gears, this graphic novel (translated into English by Montana Kane in 2021), is a work of historical fiction that follows the exploits of an all-Jewish British Army Unit that tracks down Nazis trying to escape after the war and also helps displaced Jews travel to Palestine."

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