Word: antisemitisme
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But since the Nazi Holocaust, the play has been a source of controversy as well as cash. Jews and liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The...
Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger declared from an Oberammergau pulpit, "AntiSemitism has no part in this play." Saying that anti-Semitism can be brought on "by talking about it," he added: "I beg of everybody, particularly our Jewish friends, to stop reproaching us with an anti-Semitism totally alien...
But Oberammergau reformers are not satisfied. The production, says Hans Schwaighofer, head of Oberammergau's venerable woodcarving school, "does not alter the play's strident tone or its message: the collective Jewish guilt for the death of Jesus." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum of the American Jewish Committee, who has...
Children pick up from these parents a sense of danger, distrust and the fragility of life. The parents tend to view the very existence of their offspring as a final triumph over Hitler and antiSemitism. But for the child, it can mean an overwhelming pressure to compensate for dead relatives...
The Seventh Symphony, he says, was planned in his head before the war; the so-called invasion theme, with its fearsomely swelling fortissimo, has nothing to do with the Nazi attack. "I was thinking of other enemies of humanity [namely Stalin and his killers] when 1 composed the theme." His...