Can a Hollywood blockbuster be the most important piece of Passover liturgy produced in a generation?
On this episode of Identity/Crisis, Yehuda Kurtzer sits down with Rabbi Professor Burt Visotzky, Appelman Professor Emeritus of Midrash and Interreligious Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary and a lead consultant to the makers of the film “The Prince of Egypt.”
Together they examine the 1998 DreamWorks film as both cultural artifact and sacred text. They unpack the film’s interpretive choices — from casting the voice of God to the rewriting of an Oscar-winning lyric — and ask why this movie has quietly entered the Jewish ritual calendar as essential Pesach viewing.
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