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‘The Jazz Singer’: How the world’s first ‘talkie’ could not be more Jewy

ToI's movie maven and deputy editor delve into the 1927 Al Jolson tale of a cantor's son who just had to put on black face to make it to Broadway The post ‘The Jazz Singer’: How the world’s first ‘talkie’ could not be more Jewy appeared first on The Times of Israel .

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