A mere half-year after Kristallnacht, the successful Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote a celebrated book of short stories, one of them a chilling narrative of the German pogrom. Several years later, he wrote a Broadway play about the brave Jews fighting for the establishment of Israel. This was all in addition to a series of speeches and articles excoriating those who stayed silent in the face of undeniable anti-Jewish mass violence. There is a clever echo of this in a recent Hollywood