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"I have decided to define
as Jewish those motion
pictures in which Judaism,
a Jewish experience or
simply a character's Jewish
background plays a defi-
nite role in the develop-
ment of the story" writes
author Joel Samberg.

riter Joel Samberg, a graduate
in journalism and theater from
Hofstra University who usually
writes for magazines, has writ-
ten a book. It's about movies.
Samberg likes movies — he likes them a
lot. In Reel Jewish: A Century of Jewish Movies
(Jonathan David Publishers; $22.95), he
gives us substance and an extra large bag of
popcorn.
Not so much a concise history as a memo-
ry album, this book focuses on those movies
that have, directly or indirectly, hit closest to
the meaning of what it means to be Jewish.
The author is not an academic, a profes-
sional critic or even a rabbi. His choices and
opinions are arbitrary and sometimes didac-
tic, but there is no denying that they are
refreshingly personal. There is also no deny-
ing that his book is obviously a labor of love.
Rather than approach the subject in a
chronological manner, Samberg hopscotches
over the years, going forward and back, up
and down. He takes the thematic route,

Robert del Valle is a Royal Oak-based free-

lance writer.