Zoom discussion for Saratoga Jewish Community Arts Fall Premiere Set for Sept. 8

SARATOGA SPRINGS —Saratoga Jewish Community Arts opens its fall season with a Zoom panel discussion of the film “Gentleman’s Agreement.” The program will be on Zoom at 7 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 18.

“Gentleman’ Agreement,” the 1947 film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck, for the first time made anti-Semitism the focus in prosperous postwar America and exposes the insidious way that Jews were excluded from social clubs, vacation resorts, and jobs.

The movie is adapted by Moss Hart from the bestseller of the same name by Laura Z. Hobson. The film is remarkable as much for what it chooses not to depict as what it does. It is a hard-hitting movie about anti-Semitism, unafraid of specificity in its choice of targets that nonetheless depicts anti-Jewish sentiment as being primarily confined to the types of people and places a well-heeled Manhattan journalist might encounter.

Registration required for zoom panel discussion is at sjca.sjcf@gmail.com. For more information, go to:    www.saratogasinai.org, or www.saratogajewishculturalfestival.org.