Provide a 5 pages analysis while answering the following question: America Dream in An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews invented Hollywood by Neal Gabler. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The book is a study of how the Jews came to dominate Hollywood and this made them the target of anti-Semitism.

The author of this book highlights one significant irony associated with Hollywood in its early, glory days. During this period, the film industry was producing and promoting films that were replete with so-called American values. yet the same films were not produced by Americans themselves but by Jewish immigrants. The American dream as promoted in the films could thus be seen to be a set of values and achievements worth attaining. however, these values and achievements were in effect, the Jewish idea of what constituted happiness and success rather than actually being the actual values the native American people may have espoused. The author has cited the views of the screenwriter Hy Kraft, who stated: They (the Jews of Hollywood) not only believed in the American dream, rather than see it fail, they tried desperately and successfully to manufacture the evidence for its survival..