Three of the foremost scholars on Kubrick examine his films through a Jewish lens, with Nathan Abrams (The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Cinema), Dr Geoffrey Cocks (The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust), and Dr Marat Grinberg (Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen). Panel moderated by The CJM's Associate Director of Public Programs, Gravity Goldberg.
Nathan Abrams is Professor of Film Studies at Bangor University in Wales. He is an expert on Jewish cinema, having written The New Jew in Film: Exploring Jews and Jewishness in Contemporary Cinema (Rutgers UP, 2012) and edited Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture (Northwestern UP, 2016). He is also founding co-editor of Jewish Film and New Media: An International Journal. He has been teaching the films of Stanley Kubrick since 2007 and his book exploring the Jewishness of Stanley Kubrick based on original research in the Stanley Kubrick Archives, Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual, is forthcoming from Rutgers UP.
Geoffrey Cocks is Professor of History at Albion College. He is the author of Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Göring Institute (1985, 1997); The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History and the Holocaust (2004); and The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany (2012). He received his PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1975.
Marat Grinberg is associate professor of Russian and Humanities at Reed College. He is the author of "I am to Be Read not from Left to Right, but in Jewish: from Right to Left": The Poetics of Boris Slutsky and co-editor of Woody on Rye: Jewishness in the Films and Plays of Woody Allen. His most recent essays on modern Jewish politics, literature, and cinema have appeared in Commentary, Tablet Magazine, Shofar, and Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities. Grinberg spent the summer of 2009 working in the Kubrick archives at the University of London, researching the Aryan Papers materials. He's now writing a book about this unfinished film and Kubrick's Holocaust vision.
