“In [1939], I became a Jew and looked on the world with Jewish eyes.” —Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century
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Ben Hecht invented the gangster movie. He also prodded Roosevelt into saving thousands of Jews from the Nazis, and marshaled reluctant American Jews into becoming Zionists.
Ben Hecht in 1946. Eileen Darby/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images.
“In [1939], I became a Jew and looked on the world with Jewish eyes.” —Ben Hecht, A Child of the Century
More about: Arts & Culture, Ben Hecht, History & Ideas, Holocaust
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