Jews in American cinema
Jews played a prominent and often leading role in much of the historical development of the film industry in the United States. == The New York period == According to a standard work by Huberman and Chandler, "The Lower East Side...was the cradle of the movie industry...The origins of Hollywood were to be found in the new, substantially immigrant mass audience, and its founding fathers among the entrepreneurs of New York's preeminent pre-world War I Jewish neighborhood." The paradox is that the American film industry, ...was founded and for more than thirty years operated by Eastern European Jews...