The missing narrative also deprives museumgoers of understanding how these men, through their gifts and ambitions as well as their prejudices and flaws, defined struggles persisting to this day, from labor relations to gender equity.
“It implies that - despite antisemitism - Jews are seen as insiders rather than the outsiders they were before creating Hollywood,” says Columbia University film professor Annette Insdorf, who wrote Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust. Yet overlooking the moguls’ story is troublingly ahistorical, say scholars. Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Universal owner Carl Laemmle (right) with Albert Einstein in 1931. Without the Jewish leadership in Hollywood, there would be no Hollywood,” he says. Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and CEO of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which runs L.A.’s Museum of Tolerance, and himself a two-time Oscar winner (for producing documentaries on Jewish subjects, 1982’s Genocide and 1997’s The Long Way Home), contends that to inaugurate an institution canonizing the film business in the absence of those who created it “is a form of intellectual discrimination.
Explains one museum insider, “There has been a huge overcorrection of history due to wokeness.” “So many things were looked at in different ways in terms of, ‘How do we knit this all together?'” Others believe the reconceived format was cover for a new cultural storehouse wishing to position itself, post-George Floyd, to best avoid criticism over Hollywood’s own racism. But his replacement, Bill Kramer, explains that “we moved away from a chronological walk-through of cinematic history” in favor of a more thematic approach when he took over the following year. It included a gallery dedicated to the arc of the studio system and its founders.
In 2018, the museum announced a permanent exhibition plan, under then-head Kerry Brougher (who’d arrived from the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum). Haim Saban, who donated $50 million to the institution (its single largest gift), has gone public with his view, along with Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, who attended the gala and later told Rolling Stone: “As I walked through, I literally turned to the person I was there with and said to him, ‘Where are the Jews?'”
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