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Article: U. Florida Jewish Awareness Month begins with speech by Joel Siegel
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- March 2, 2001
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Diana Moskovitz
University Wire
03-02-2001
(Independent Florida Alligator) (U-WIRE) GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- "Good Morning America" film critic Joel Siegel credited Hollywood Jews with creating many of the endearing, though false, realities presented by the American entertainment industry in a speech Thursday night at the University of Florida for the kickoff of Jewish Awareness Month.
Siegel, the child of European Jewish immigrants, called Hollywood Jews of the 1930s and '40s "some of the worst human beings who ever lived." "They gave us the ideas of Prince Charming and the way we live our lives," Siegel said. "And the way they showed us to live our lives was a life with white Anglo-Saxons and ...