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Guest Scholar – From ‘A Flag is Born’ to ‘Fauda’: The Image of Israel in Pop Culture, with Ted Merwin

Sunday, December 5, 2021 1 Tevet 5782

11:00 AM - 12:00 PMZoom

From ‘A Flag is Born’ to ‘Fauda’: The Image of Israel in Pop Culture, with Ted Merwin, PhD, author of "Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli”

Even as it has taken its place among the world’s most powerful nations, Israel continues to exert a potent influence on the imagination. In this multimedia lecture, scholar and former American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) staffer Ted Merwin traces the evolution of the U.S.-Israel relationship in visual art, photography, performing arts, film, and TV. From the 1940s theatrical pageant “A Flag is Born” to the 1960s Paul Newman film, “Exodus,” to American magazine covers during the Six Day War, to the current crop of binge-worthy Israeli TV shows, our perceptions of the Jewish state are conditioned just as much — if not more — through culture as they are through foreign relations, diplomacy, and defense-related cooperation. 

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