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Recovering Broken Barriers: On “Khavah” (1919)
Thomas Doherty studies the lost Jewish-American silent film "Khavah," considering why it was a flop then and an art-house gem now....
A cultural historian with a special interest in Hollywood cinema, Thomas Doherty is a professor of American Studies at Brandeis University.