The Oscars and the Plight of the ‘Good Jew’
Flavius Niculescu
Last night’s Oscars ceremony honored the film No Other Land with an award, but the acceptance speeches unwittingly paid homage to an old classic, the 1966 big-screen adaptation of A Man For All Seasons . “It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world,” Paul Scofield’s Sir Thomas More famously says upon the realization that his friend betrayed him for the reward of being appointed attorney general for Wales. “But for Wales?” No Other Land is about an illicit Palestinian
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