The choice of the rarely performed “Jewess of Toledo” for presentation at the municipal theater at nearby Oldenburg is being criticized by critics on a number of German newspapers because the play contains many anti-Semitic remarks and characterizations.
The play was discovered among the manuscripts of Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer after his death more than 80 years ago. The critics, who are willing to accept that in the theater of nearly a century ago anti-Semitism might not be taken too seriously, question the wisdom of producing such a work so soon after the Nazi extermination of European Jewry.
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