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A Flag Is Born

A play at Temple Solel of Paradise Valley





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AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR A FREE PALESTINE
presents
A Flag is Born
by Ben Hecht



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American League for a Free Palestine presents A Flag is Born



Theater programs 1946

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Marlon Brando
Celia Adler
Richard Monti

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Wikipedia > A Flag Is Born


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Internet Broadway Database > A Flag Is Born


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Special Feature Ben Hecht’s “A Flag is Born”: A Play That Changed History


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American League for Free Palestine Inaugurates “palestine Resistance Month”


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Original Daily News Bulletin [02OCT46]
JTA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) [pdf]


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Tom Oppenheim reflects on his grandmother Stella Adler's role in Yiddish theater as inseparable from her activism—a view Stella instilled in her student Marlon Brando. Her influence led Brando to his Broadway debut role in Ben Hecht's A Flag is Born, a political play meant to raise money for European Jews after World War II.

Dr. Rafael Medoff on "A Flag Is Born"


an era when Hollywood sided with the Palestinians but in those days the Jews were the Palestinians.

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“From ‘A Flag is Born’ to ‘Fauda’: The Image of Israel in Popular Culture


From the 1940s theatrical pageant “A Flag is Born” to the 1960s Paul Newman film, “Exodus,” to American magazine covers during the Six Day War

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THE EXODUS SONG


A song from the movie - Exodus

Exodus is a soundtrack album by Ernest Gold with the Sinfonia of London from the 1960 film Exodus directed by Otto Preminger.

Andy Williams
Moon River And Other Great Movie Themes

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Archive for

SPECIAL FEATURE BEN HECHT'S "A FLAG IS BORN": A PLAY THAT CHANGED HISTORY

by Dr. Rafael Medoff



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Teaching The Holocaust — Through Comic Books


Archived


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‘The Nation’ Cuts Ties To Holocaust-Denial Group After Complaint By Wyman Institute For Holocaust Studies


Archived


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My Seder with Brando


When Marlon made me an offer I couldn't refuse, and Bob sang an unforgettable serenade.

[Marlon Brando and Bob Dylan]

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Wikipedia > Marlon Brando


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Wikipedia > Ben Hecht


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"Out of frustration over American policy and outrage at Hollywood's fear of offending its European markets"

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Playbill > A Flag Is Born [05SEP46]


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The Bergson Group, A Flag is Born


L to R: David, played by Marlon Brando; Zelda, played by Celia Adler, and Tevya, played by Paul Muni.

Archive


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Encyclopedia of America's Response to the Holocaust
Brando, Marlon

Archive


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Marlon Brando And The Play That Helped Create Israel


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Zionist Brando play turns 60


the fight to establish a Jewish state, the smuggling of Holocaust survivors to Palestine and the battle against racial segregation in the United States.

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Temple Solel > Paradise Valley, AZ


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