(JTA) - A postwar epic about a Holocaust survivor, a contemporary comedy about Holocaust tourism and a biopic of a Jewish musical legend helped lend a formidable Jewish presence to Thursday's Oscar nominations.
Meanwhile, nominations for a documentary about Judea and Samaria and a docudrama about the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes also kept Israel in the conversation. The nominations announcement, delayed multiple times by historically destructive Los Angeles wildfires, arrived amid calls in some corners to cancel the Oscars altogether out of deference to the fire's victims....
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