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Joseph Papp, raised an Orthodox Jew, went ahead with his performance and his TV commitments. Unhappily, despite the raspingly effective performance of George C. Scott as Shylock and a smoothly urbane Portia by Nan Martin, the production was not up to the usual Papp standard. But 200 critics and 100,000 rabbis could not shake Joe Papp out of his fortress now. His new amphitheater is handsomely set in a rocky grotto at the edge of a lake, and equipped with a mobile stage that can swiftly and silently be changed to suggest anything from a closeted interior to "another...
Tolerance & Temptation. The title figure of The Slave is a 17th century Polish Jew named Jacob. Marauding Cossacks have swept through his village, massacred most of the men, and carried the rest off to be sold as slaves. At the book's outset, Jacob has spent four years as a slave of the Gazdas, a Polish mountaineer people who practice a debased kind of paganism lightly colored by Christianity. Although a Talmudic scholar and a skilled woodcarver. Jacob has learned to tend the Gazdas' cattle, and he is tolerated because he is good at it. But he observes...
Jacob's sore temptation is Wanda, the daughter of his master. She is intelligent and well formed. But by both Jewish and Christian custom of the times, marriage of Jew and Gentile must be punished at least by ostracism, probably by death. Jacob is ransomed and eventually wanders to Lublin, but finds no comfort among the city's Jews, who seem to have forgotten the Cossack massacres. They have grown fat. "All this flesh was dressed in velvet, silk and sables. They were so heavy they wheezed; their eyes shone greedily. They spoke an only half comprehensible language...
...General Franco wanted no help from the monarchy, replied that Don Juan's life was "valuable and will be needed later." Until they chose a place to live at Estoril in 1946, Don Juan and his family roamed through Europe, as he puts it, "like the wandering Jew." The Reign in Spain. He is a handsome bull of a man, with no trace of the family's hereditary illness. But his younger daughter, Infanta Margarita, is blind. His older daughter, Infanta Pilar, 25, is now completing her nurse's training in Lisbon. Living in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...first recorded heretic, a converted Jew named Simon Magus, tried to convince St. Peter that Christ's message could be welded to the wisdom of the Greeks...