The Chai-Light Zone
eBook - ePub

The Chai-Light Zone

Rod Serling, Secular Jew

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Chai-Light Zone

Rod Serling, Secular Jew

About this book

The Twilight Zone is remembered as a science fiction television series that reflected the uneasiness of Cold War America. Its creator, Rod Serling, was a secular Jew who fought in World War II and returned stateside to see moral problems at home, like racism and the potential for technology to rob us of our humanity. The Twilight Zone was Serling's attempt to influence mainstream culture in an ethically positive direction. His moral compass, which shaped his writing on the series, is entangled with his brand of cultural Judaism. By examining a range of episodes, the authors of this volume bring this Jewish moral influence out from the twilight and into the full light of day.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter 1: Rod Serling’s Jewishness
  4. Chapter 2: Portrayals of Nazism in The Twilight Zone’s Early Seasons
  5. Chapter 3: ā€œThe Mighty Caseyā€
  6. Chapter 4: Serling’s Moral Inversion of Anti-Semitic Stereotypes
  7. Chapter 5: The Borscht Belt Meets Orion’s Belt
  8. Chapter 6: Three Rabbis Named Chaim
  9. Chapter 7: Seeing Is Not Believing
  10. Bibliography