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Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Leonard Bernstein, and Norman Mailer: Four Different Ways To Be Jewish and American

All four of David Denby’s eminent Jews were alike in their secularity. If they were not religious Jews, they were Jewish nonetheless in an unalterable way that remains important to Jewish and American history.

Mel Brooks poses next to a framed poster advertising his 1974 film 'Blazing Saddles,' at Los Angeles, July 23, 1991.
Mel Brooks poses next to a framed poster advertising his 1974 film 'Blazing Saddles,' at Los Angeles, July 23, 1991. AP/Nick Ut, file