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Graves and Images: Once Upon a Time in America and the Unmaking of Jewish Memory
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 3, Fall 2011 (T211)
- pp. 124-133
- Article
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The Lower East Side has long served as a “sacralized spot” of Jewish memory, in Hasia Diner’s words. But in Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone — neither Jewish nor American — demystifies the images and performances that went into the sacralization of this space, and in so doing radically questions the politics of memory that gathered around it.