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Nicole Fonsh's avatar

This was FASCINATING and I'm sending to all my (Jewish) family :) I was today years old when I realized that of course it was a Jewish family. But my family are Jews from Syria (originally referred to ourselves as Sephardic but now use the Mizrahi term) so I have never related to the Catskills and Ashkenazi of it all, but now I need to watch it immediately again with this lens. Thank you so much for this wonderful piece.

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Ben Wheeler's avatar

I love this essay! My only quibble is that the Fountainhead line is 100% in the movie. The movie's confident association of an Ayn Rand worldview with extreme douchebaggery is one of my favorite things in the world!

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