TY - JOUR

T1 - “a monstrously difficult subject”

T2 - Stanley Kubrick’s Aryan Papers (1991-1993)

AU - Abrams, Nathan

N1 - Green OA Hopkins Press journal authors are permitted to deposit a digital copy of their final manuscript in their noncommercial institutional repository, provided the repository is not discipline based and does not accept contributions from outside the institution. This self-archiving policy pertains to the final manuscript version of the article only and not to the final published version in any format, including PDF. Deposits must credit Hopkins Press as publisher and identify the appropriate copyright holder. Hopkins Press complies fully with the OA requirements of NIHR, UKRI, and Wellcome. Where required by their funder, authors retain the right to distribute their author accepted manuscript via a noncommercial institutional and/or subject repository (e.g., Europe PMC) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license for release no later than the date of first online publication. 

PY - 2023/7

Y1 - 2023/7

N2 - Special issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities on the subject of the influence of the Holocaust on Jewish identities and conversely, the influence of Jewish identities on perceptions and interpretations of the Holocaust, co-edited by Phyllis Lassner and Victoria Aarons, forthcoming January 2023. The works of Stanley Kubrick, whether his photography, documentary or feature film, can be said to embody cultural expressions of Jewish Identities, the Holocaust and World War II. While Kubrick long sought to make a film about World War II and the Holocaust, he never succeeded. Nevertheless, allusions can be found in his work, both direct and indirect, in both the projects he completed and those he only planned but never realised. By exploiting the new research into Kubrick’s Jewishness (Abrams, Burton, Cocks, Grinberg, Mikics,) and combining it with newly available archival material, this article addresses "Aryan Papers," the Holocaust film project that Kubrick worked on but failed to complete between 1991 and 1993 and why it was never realized.

AB - Special issue of The Journal of Jewish Identities on the subject of the influence of the Holocaust on Jewish identities and conversely, the influence of Jewish identities on perceptions and interpretations of the Holocaust, co-edited by Phyllis Lassner and Victoria Aarons, forthcoming January 2023. The works of Stanley Kubrick, whether his photography, documentary or feature film, can be said to embody cultural expressions of Jewish Identities, the Holocaust and World War II. While Kubrick long sought to make a film about World War II and the Holocaust, he never succeeded. Nevertheless, allusions can be found in his work, both direct and indirect, in both the projects he completed and those he only planned but never realised. By exploiting the new research into Kubrick’s Jewishness (Abrams, Burton, Cocks, Grinberg, Mikics,) and combining it with newly available archival material, this article addresses "Aryan Papers," the Holocaust film project that Kubrick worked on but failed to complete between 1991 and 1993 and why it was never realized.

U2 - 10.1353/jji.2023.a898140

DO - 10.1353/jji.2023.a898140

M3 - Article

VL - 16

SP - 79

EP - 98

JO - Journal of Jewish Identities

JF - Journal of Jewish Identities

SN - 1939-7941

IS - 1-2

ER -