Difference between revisions of "Ben Hecht"

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-'''Ben Hecht''' (February 28, 1894 – April 18, 1964) was an American [[Judaism|Jewish]] screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist and novelist. He gained fame early through a [[Broadway]] play, ''The Front Page'', critical of his chosen profession and the way his fellow journalists manage the news at the expense of their subjects.
-But during the [[Second World War]] he became famous for something else: unabashed advocacy for the Jews against the [[Nazi]]s. In 1944, he wrote a work titled ''A Guide for the Bedeviled,'' roundly criticizing "objective thinkers" who, as he saw it, expressed too much sympathy for [[Germany|Germans]] when the first rumors of the [[Holocaust]] already had become too prominent to ignore. He also played an active role in the supply of what became the State of [[Israel]]. The [[United Kingdom|British]] boycotted his work in retaliation for his activities.
-==External links==
-*[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ben-Hecht Biography] at the ''Encyclopædia Britannica''
-*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/BHecht.html Biography] at the ''Jewish Virtual Library''
-[[Category:Journalism]]
-[[Category:Jewish People]]
-[[Category:Novelists]]
-[[Category:Playwrights]]

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