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of Broadway musicals have a Jewish writer or composer — 'Try 97%', says Michael Kantor, director of the Peabody-winning PBS film Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (2013), on the Being Jewish with Jonah Platt podcast. The film documents that for half a century the form's songs were written almost exclusively by Jewish Americans — Cole Porter the famous exception.

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major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age — Universal, Paramount, Fox, MGM, Warner Bros. and Columbia — were founded by Jewish immigrants from Europe or their sons: Carl Laemmle, Adolph Zukor, William Fox, Louis B. Mayer, the Warner brothers, Harry and Jack Cohn. The historian Neal Gabler told the story in An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood (1988).

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creators of the American superhero are counted in this directory — Superman by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, Captain America by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the Marvel universe of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: the comic book was built above all by young Jewish New Yorkers, as PBS's Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle (2013) — by the same Michael Kantor — recounts.

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houses that wrote the history of the American record were founded by Jews: Blue Note (1939, jazz) by the Berlin refugees Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff; Chess Records (1950, Chicago blues) by Leonard and Phil Chess, Polish-born immigrants; Philles (1961) by producer Phil Spector, inventor of the 'Wall of Sound'; Asylum (1971) then Geffen Records (1980) by David Geffen, who signed Nirvana and Guns N' Roses.

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