Richard Bernstein's biography charts Jolson's success and addresses the reviled practice of blackface that helped to make ...

"The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson, the first movie with talking actors, was released on this day in history, Oct. 6, 1927.

Back in the 1920s, a comedy called “Abie’s Irish Rose,” about a Jewish boy married to a Catholic girl and the havoc that ...

While the similarities between the Polish play and American film may be primarily thematic, with important shift being opera and jazz as the genres favoured by the protagonists, it is still worth of ...

The first talkie shown in many black-owned movie theaters in this country was “The Jazz Singer,” Musser writes in “Why Did Negroes Love Al Jolson and ‘The Jazz Singer’?: Melodrama ...

Egypt and Syria launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur. This conflict, which would last 19 days, would ...

The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a feature film containing both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.

On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad while reviewing a ...

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