The Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women

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Steven Alan Carr

Steven Alan Carr is Professor of Communication and Director of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is the author of Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History Up to World War II and many other essays on Hollywood and the Holocaust. With Jennifer Frost, he co-authored Teaching History with Message Movies in 2018.

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Luise Rainer

By the age of 27, Luise Rainer had become the first person to win two back-to-back Oscars. By her early thirties, her Hollywood phase had ended, and she proceeded to fight for political causes, support the war effort, and take occasional roles on television.