{"id":1957,"date":"2024-06-10T21:22:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/amid-outcry-academy-museum-to-revise-exhibit-on-hollywoods-jewish-roots\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T21:22:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:22:04","slug":"amid-outcry-academy-museum-to-revise-exhibit-on-hollywoods-jewish-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/life-style\/amid-outcry-academy-museum-to-revise-exhibit-on-hollywoods-jewish-roots\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Outcry, Academy Museum to Revise Exhibit on Hollywood\u2019s Jewish Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"


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When the popular Academy Museum of Motion Pictures opened in 2021 with exhibits celebrating the diversity of the film industry, the museum was criticized<\/a> for having largely omitted one group: the Jewish founders of Hollywood.<\/p>\n

Last month, the museum aimed to correct that oversight by opening a permanent new exhibition<\/a> highlighting the formative role that Jewish immigrants like Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer played in creating the American film industry.<\/p>\n

But the new exhibition, which turns a sometimes critical eye on Hollywood\u2019s founders, ignited an uproar. An open letter that a group called United Jewish Writers sent to the museum on Monday objected to the use of words including \u201ctyrant,\u201d \u201coppressive,\u201d \u201cwomanizer\u201d and \u201cpredator\u201d in its wall text, called the exhibit \u201cantisemitic\u201d and described it as \u201cthe only section of the museum that vilifies those it purports to celebrate.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response to the growing outcry, the Academy Museum said in a statement Monday that it had \u201cheard the concerns from members of the Jewish community\u201d and that it was \u201ccommitted to making changes to the exhibition to address them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n