What Was So Funny about Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973): A Comedie Film between History and Memory

Authors :: Mulvey, Michael
Source :: French Politics, Culture and Society. Winter, 2017, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p24, 20 p.
Publication Year :: 2017
Abstract: Abstract This article reappraises Gerard Oury's Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (1973), a comedy about a bigoted Frenchman and an Arab revolutionary disguised as orthodox rabbis, by considering the film's [...]

Subjects :: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob (Motion picture) -- Criticism and interpretation
Movies
French Jews
Rabbis
Stereotypes (Psychology) -- Social aspects -- Evaluation
Antisemitism -- Social aspects
Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Regional focus/area studies

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