Ben Hecht

“Not by meek flattery, but by making ‘the free world’ stare right into its own hypocrisy.”

July 3 2023 12:01AM

A lesson from Jeremiah.

Oct. 28 2019 12:01AM

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.

July 3 2019 12:01AM

He brought the Holocaust to public attention.

Edward White
Nov. 6 2017 12:01AM