1st Edition

The Jew in Dutch Cinema Images, Stereotypes and National Identity

By Eyal Boers Copyright 2026
216 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is a pioneer study of the image of the Jew in Dutch cinema within the context of national cinema and identity. The image of the Jew is examined from the 1914 silent film Weergevonden , through antisemitic films produced in the Netherlands under Nazi occupation, Dutch films of the first decades after the Second World War, and war films of the 1980s, to movies produced in the first two... Read more

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Jews in Dutch Society: A Historical and Sociological Overview

3. Dutch National Cinema and Dutch National Identity

4. The Dutch Film Industry and the Jews

5. The Jew in Dutch Cinema – Images, Stereotypes, and the Shaping of National Identity

5.1 The Jew in Weergevonden: In Need of the Gentile's Grace

5.2 The Jew in Dutch Cinema Under Nazi Occupation: Greedy Rhino

5.3 The Jew in Dutch Cinema after the Second World War: In the Shadow of Anne Frank

5.4 The Jew in Dutch War Films of the 1980s: Passive Hero

5.5 Frans Weisz: The Jewish Auteur

5.6 The Jew in Dutch Movies in the Twenty-First Century: A Dutch Prototype or a Jewish Outsider?

Conclusion

 Filmography & Bibliography

 Index

Biography

Eyal Boers is a senior lecturer and head of film and television track at Ariel University's School of Communication, Israel. He was the chairman of the Israel Film Council from 2018 to 2022. He produced and directed the documentary films Classmates of Anne Frank (2008) and Live or Die in Entebbe (2012).