Epilogue: The Decline of a Jewish Cinema Culture

Abstract

In addition to a recap of the book’s trajectory chapter seven discusses both continuities and discontinuities in Jewish patterns of cinema-going and film reception in the post-war period. In regard to the former, the continuance of screenings of Jewish interest films, special one-off screenings as charity fundraisers and the use of cinemas for Jewish communal activities in new Jewish neighbourhoods are recorded. However, it is also affirmed that the post-war period took on a new singularity. In the aftermath of the holocaust Jewish life in Britain adopted an introverted character—an event registered at the level of film reception in the Jewish press’s response to both Jewish interest films and the exhibition of newsreel footage of the liberation of concentration camps.