I Count Jews in the Movie Credits

When Chappelle held up a mirror, I laughed

Jeffrey Kass
Momentum
Published in
5 min readNov 23, 2022

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I recall at a very early age staying in the cinema to watch the credits after every movie to count the number of Jewish-sounding names that scrolled down the big screen. A few times, when a movie had zero Jews listed at the end, I even wondered if the producer was anti-Semitic. “How is that even possible?” I’d ask myself.

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Jeffrey Kass
Momentum

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