Emilia laments that it’s as though the people in the pictures have died twice. First, they die; then they are forgotten....so true. You should see the intergenerational disputes at my family kitchen table. My parents, Soviet jewish immigrants, and their youngest daughter, my sister, born in the US, who went to very progressive Pomona College.
In case it's of interest, Rabbi provided a view of why Jewish folk need to think over the course of millennia rather than decades or even generations. I liken it to my journey to recovery from chronic pain post covid. https://awaymessage.substack.com/p/enter-label-an-ode-to-the-invisible
It may not have the popularity of Hamilton, but it sounds more historically real. Sometimes the light gets in, and playwrights actually have something substantial to say.
Without this context, the whole issue of Palestine is missed.
I'll have to check out more of Stoppard. Incidentally, after reading Pamela Paul's Sunday NYT column ("A 90-Year-Old Book Tried to Warn Us"), I ordered an advance copy of a new edition of Lion Feuchtwanger's "The Oppermann's," published in 1933, to get some idea of how the disenfranchisement and pogroms looked in the earliest stages. A friend of mine's grandparents were robbed of their family business in the purge.
Thank you for the revealing review.
thank you for reading!
Emilia laments that it’s as though the people in the pictures have died twice. First, they die; then they are forgotten....so true. You should see the intergenerational disputes at my family kitchen table. My parents, Soviet jewish immigrants, and their youngest daughter, my sister, born in the US, who went to very progressive Pomona College.
oh yes. the arguments over our dinner tables were legendary, especially when immigrants and US-born generations are involved.
In case it's of interest, Rabbi provided a view of why Jewish folk need to think over the course of millennia rather than decades or even generations. I liken it to my journey to recovery from chronic pain post covid. https://awaymessage.substack.com/p/enter-label-an-ode-to-the-invisible
thank you for sharing!
It may not have the popularity of Hamilton, but it sounds more historically real. Sometimes the light gets in, and playwrights actually have something substantial to say.
Without this context, the whole issue of Palestine is missed.
Stoppard has been a master of combining substance with amusement. A true polymath, of which we have increasingly fewer and fewer.
I'll have to check out more of Stoppard. Incidentally, after reading Pamela Paul's Sunday NYT column ("A 90-Year-Old Book Tried to Warn Us"), I ordered an advance copy of a new edition of Lion Feuchtwanger's "The Oppermann's," published in 1933, to get some idea of how the disenfranchisement and pogroms looked in the earliest stages. A friend of mine's grandparents were robbed of their family business in the purge.