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Title	Boycott the Movies!
Description	Boycott the Movies! is another one of many pieces of anti-semitic propaganda distributed in the late 1930s, aimed specifically at Jews in Hollywood. It reads: "Christian Vigilantes Arise! Buy Gentile; Employ Gentile; Vote Gentile." In the upper-center of the flier is an illustration of a beautiful young girl sandwiched between a creepy-looking hooked-nose man and a snake. The snake's tail weaves in and out of the O's in the word HOLLYWOOD. There is a large star of David in the background. The flier goes on to read: "Boycott the Movies! Hollywood is the Sodom and Gomorrha where international Jewry controls vice, dope, gambling -- where young gentile girls are raped by Jewish producers, directors, casting directors who go unpunished. The Jewish Hollywood Anti-Nazi League controls Communism in the motion picture industry. Stars, writers, and artists are compelled to pay for communistic activities." Legend has it that this flier was tossed from the roof of the Taft Building on Hollywood Boulevard to "snowstorm" pedestrians below. 11 x 8.5 in.
Subject	Antisemitism Anti-Jewish propaganda Jews in the motion picture industry Propaganda, Anti-communist Fascism
Keywords	Anti-Hollywood propaganda; Nazi;
Location	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Date	1938
Photographer/Author	Allen, Henry
Donors and Others	Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles
Media	Flier (printed matter)
Media Measurement	28 x 21.5 cm
Identifier	CRCms133
Language	eng
Type	text
Format	text/jpeg
Repository Name	Delmar T. Oviatt Library. Urban Archives Center
Collection	Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles Collection
Repository Number	Box CRC/2 90-37
Exhibition information	Case 11, #8
Rights	http://digital-library.csun.edu/copyright.html
Project Name	In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California, 1933-1945
Date Digitized	2007-10-27
Date cataloged	2007-10-27
Publisher	Delmar T. Oviatt Library

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