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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Set in Nazi-controlled Slovakia in 1942, this perfectly played Czech masterpiece reduces an awesome tragedy to human size. Its seriocomic hero is a well-meaning Aryan nonentity (Josef Kroner) who seizes the button shop owned by a feeble, trusting old Jewess (Ida Kaminska) and finds himself a partner in her fate...
...organs, he explained, had been injured slightly by shrapnel during the siege of Jerusalem in 1948. Yet the law (Deuteronomy 23:2) says that no one who is "crushed or maimed in his privy parts" can marry within the congregation. This meant that he was barred from marrying a Jewess. But, added Blau triumphantly, there was no reason, according to rabbinical commentaries, why he could not wed a convert. "And God," he said proudly, "has sent me a convert...
JUDITH. Jean Giraudoux has fashioned a parable on heroism and piety from the story of the Jewess who glorified herself and saved her nation by destroying a conqueror. Rosemary Harris' Judith embraces all the facets of a complex woman...
JUDITH. Rosemary Harris is superb as the beautiful Jewess who saved her people by killing an Assyrian conqueror. Jean Giraudoux's skeptical version of the apocryphal story reveals a Judith more womanly than saintly, driven not so much by piety as by a desire for personal glory...
JUDITH. Rosemary Harris is superb as the beautiful Jewess who saved her people by killing an Assyrian conqueror. Jean Giraudoux's skeptical version of the apocryphal story reveals a Judith more womanly than saintly, driven not so much by piety as by a desire for personal glory...