![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The family is in a culturally liminal space: white but not white enough for the Trumps, the borough’s ruling class in the early 1980s, and yet still privileged enough to perpetuate anti-Black oppression on their way to assimilation. Her faith is defined by her desire to marry a nice Jewish man.īy contrast, in “Armageddon Time,” the Graffs’ Judaism is essential to the story Gray is telling about his childhood in Queens. Judy encounters no antisemitism in the Army. Still, it’s not as if “Private Benjamin” really wrestles with what it’s like to be a Jew in America. ![]() “She was a JAP, but she grew up,” the Graff matriarch says as they leave the theater. “ Private Benjamin” (directed by Howard Zieff) is not primarily thought of as a Jewish movie, but the characters in “Armageddon Time” immediately identify it as such, marking Judy Benjamin, who married in a ceremony complete with a rabbi and glass-stomping, as a Jewish American Princess. Hilarity ensues when she realizes she’s going to have to get her perfectly manicured nails dirty. To deal with her grief, she joins the Army. In James Gray’s recent drama “Armageddon Time,” a Jewish family from Queens goes to see “Private Benjamin.” That 1980 comedy stars Goldie Hawn as a woman whose husband dies during coitus on their wedding night. ![]()
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