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This play by Jakov Lind, an Austrian Jew who now lives in London, is a brutal, bitter, boring and unsubtle savaging of German-or is it Western?-culture. Fortunately, it is also a brilliant production, supervised by Central Park's old Shakespeare wallah, Joseph Papp...
...excursions that a wartime setting has ready at hand. Michel Simon plays the ancient in a triumph of humorous, humane acting-turning a Sunday lunch into a bibulous burlesque, hectoring his family, grumping at the BBC, and lecturing his little friend on some of the ways to tell a Jew ("They smell bad"). In his first movie role, young Alain Cohen survives country living and the reality of imbecile anti-Semitism with the help of two sharp eyes, an impish grin, and a pair of the most perkily prominent ears in France...
...little tale of Mortimer Lucas Griffin, an all-Canadian boy in London who has the misfortune to be born white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in a time when the values of disaffected minorities are on the upswing. Cocksure's premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony in the fact that a svelte Negro beauty...
Jordan's freewheeling paraphrase tries to catch the colloquial, contemporary quality of the Pauline letters. As translated in the King James version, Romans 2:9 vows "tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile." In Jordan's phrasing, the threat comes out: "Hellfire and brimstone upon every son of a gun who works for the wrong, whether he's a 'superior' white or a Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese...
...characters of the Bible to put them down with learned insight. Joshua, he says, was "the first real pushy prophet"; Lot was "the first Biblical voyeur"; Jezebel "was immortalized by Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time to time-threw the Jew overboard." If Steinberg debunks God as well, it is not the real God but the "pompous image of him created by the clergy." Solemnly, Steinberg intones: "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord God is an Indian giver." When suffering Job calls out for God and gets...