But, ironically enough, these films were too busy attacking anti‐Semitism to bother dealing with Semites themselves the few Jewish characters in them are strictly peripheral-Gentiles dominate the action. The postwar spirit of tolerance and brotherhood brought “Crossfire” and “Gentleman's Agreement” (both 1947), two famous treatments of a previously taboo subject, antiSemitism.
Of movies that come readily to mind, what is there besides “The Jazz Singer” (in which the Jewish milieu, though fairly authentic, is too maudlin to be taken seriously)? Prior to World War II, it is difficult to find a Hollywood film that deals even marginally with this topic. In order to begin to win back the trust and admiration of the American people, Obama exhorts his Democratic colleagues to focus on a strategy of reconciliation and cooperation with their Republican counterparts, while remaining true to the core ideals of the party.UNTIL quite recently it has been one of the abiding paradoxes of the American cinema that in an industry where Jews have been a major source of talent, creative and entrepreneurial, Jewish culture-particularly in its contemporary American context - has been a very minor source of subject matter.
Rather, he contends that the public has long grown weary of partisan rancor. As such, Obama disagrees with the conventional wisdom that Democrats need to develop a more coherent stance against their Republican opponents. Obama contends that in the past, lawmakers were more willing to overlook their differences in the service of compromise and the public good, and that intra-party working relationships were more apt to be characterized by decorum, collegiality, and genuine fellow-feeling. He notes that according to his own observations, as well as the accounts offered by veteran lawmakers, Congress was not always as intractably divided as it is today. In this chapter, Obama alternates an account of the unusual campaign that ultimately resulted in his election as the junior Illinois senator with a discussion of the factors that have fostered an atmosphere of severe partisan division in Washington.
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