I had no idea...


Speaking as someone from England, I didn't realise there had ever been an anti-semitic feeling in America. Have things changed in the last sixty years or am I just spectacularly misinformed?
I was thinking that a lot of the Jews in America at that time would have been refugees from Europe so this might be more of an anti-immigrant thing and that the Jewish community were just a scapegoat.
Could somebody fill me in on this period of history?

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It was indeed surprising to see how most of the characters seemed to harbor anti-semitic sentiments to some degree on another. When Peck first "reveals" he's a Jew at the board meeting, it's funny how everybody just goes silent and stares, clearly uncomfortable with the news. Pretty overt stuff, in all.



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It was indeed surprising to see how most of the characters seemed to harbor anti-semitic sentiments to some degree on another. When Peck first "reveals" he's a Jew at the board meeting, it's funny how everybody just goes silent and stares, clearly uncomfortable with the news. Pretty overt stuff, in all.


Not Anne, though. She looked completely nonchalant, as though the announcement didn't bother her in the slightest.

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Anne was perfect.

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Try to remember that in 1947 upper crust society, board rooms, and the like was overwhelmingly WASP - White Anglo-Saxon and Protestant. Jews were not exactly welcome, neither at times were Italian, Polish, or other ethnic Catholics.

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