David Rabinowitz
David Rabinowitz · Arts & Literature
Academy Award — Best Adapted Screenplay
East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
David Rabinowitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Academy Award — Best Adapted Screenplay
Rabinowitz co-wrote, with childhood friend Charlie Wachtel, the screenplay for Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018), which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was raised in a Conservative Jewish family, attended Hebrew school at the East Brunswick Jewish Center, and is a descendant of the Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem; the writers deliberately foregrounded a Jewish detective in the film to sharpen its confrontation with antisemitism. His Jewish identity is thus well documented.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Academy Award — Best Adapted Screenplay
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
