Jews & Money

Summary In 2006, a young Jewish salesman is lured to the outskirts of Paris where he is kidnapped and later murdered by criminal gang who had demanded a half-million euro ransom on the assumption that 'all Jews are rich'. Jews & Money is a probe into the myth about Jews, and where and when it took root. Why is the Jew so often cast as the banker or trader, pawnbroker or movie mogul? Of all the medieval moneylenders, why is only Shylock remembered? How did the Rothschilds become the symbols of international capitalism? And why does a simple cell phone salesman get pegged as rich, and die for it? View more details

Jews & Money

Directed : Lewis Cohen

Written : Lewis Cohen

Stars : Abraham Foxman Robert Chazan Jacques LeGoff Sara Lipton

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Genres : History Documentary News

Release date : Jan 31, 2013

Countries of origin : Canada France

Language : English French

Summary In 2006, a young Jewish salesman is lured to the outskirts of Paris where he is kidnapped and later murdered by criminal gang who had demanded a half-million euro ransom on the assumption that 'all Jews are rich'. Jews & Money is a probe into the myth about Jews, and where and when it took root. Why is the Jew so often cast as the banker or trader, pawnbroker or movie mogul? Of all the medieval moneylenders, why is only Shylock remembered? How did the Rothschilds become the symbols of international capitalism? And why does a simple cell phone salesman get pegged as rich, and die for it? View more details

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Genres : History Documentary News

Release date : Jan 31, 2013

Countries of origin : Canada France

Language : English French

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