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From Jesus to Shylock / Susannah Heschel in Harvard Theological Review, 99/4 (October 2006)
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Titre : From Jesus to Shylock : Christian Supersessionism and “The Merchant of Venice” Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Susannah Heschel, Auteur Année de publication : 2007 Article en page(s) : pp. 407-431. Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : In 1943 the SS Gauleiter, “district administrator,” of Vienna, Baldur von Schirach, commissioned a performance of The Merchant of Venice at the famed Burgtheater to celebrate the deportation of allthe Jews;Vienna had become Judenrein “cleansed of Jews.” When Werner Krauss, the Nazis'leading actor, first appeared on stage as Shylock, he made the audience shudder. According to the newspaper account:With a crash and a weird train of shadows, something revoltingly alien and startlingly repulsive crawled across the stage…. The pale pink face, surrounded by bright red hair and beard, with its unsteady, cunning little eyes;the greasy caftan with the yellow prayershawl slung round; the splay-footed, shuffling walk; the foot stamping with rage; the claw-like gestures with the hands; the voice, now bawling, now muttering—all add up to a pathological image of the East European Jewish type, expressing all its inner and outer uncleanliness, emphasizing danger through humor.
in Harvard Theological Review > 99/4 (October 2006) . - pp. 407-431.[article] From Jesus to Shylock : Christian Supersessionism and “The Merchant of Venice” [texte imprimé] / Susannah Heschel, Auteur . - 2007 . - pp. 407-431.
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Harvard Theological Review > 99/4 (October 2006) . - pp. 407-431.
Résumé : In 1943 the SS Gauleiter, “district administrator,” of Vienna, Baldur von Schirach, commissioned a performance of The Merchant of Venice at the famed Burgtheater to celebrate the deportation of allthe Jews;Vienna had become Judenrein “cleansed of Jews.” When Werner Krauss, the Nazis'leading actor, first appeared on stage as Shylock, he made the audience shudder. According to the newspaper account:With a crash and a weird train of shadows, something revoltingly alien and startlingly repulsive crawled across the stage…. The pale pink face, surrounded by bright red hair and beard, with its unsteady, cunning little eyes;the greasy caftan with the yellow prayershawl slung round; the splay-footed, shuffling walk; the foot stamping with rage; the claw-like gestures with the hands; the voice, now bawling, now muttering—all add up to a pathological image of the East European Jewish type, expressing all its inner and outer uncleanliness, emphasizing danger through humor.