People of Oberammergau have received highest praise for their fidelity through 350 years. But Friedman asks questions that must be addressed: “Can the traditional text be reconciled with the Gospels? Does the play generate harmful, stereotypic images of Jews? Is the Passion truly a ‘hymn of reconciliation’ or is it, as Nietzsche said of Wagner’s Meistersinger, a ‘lance against civilization’?”
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“Legitimized by its putative religiosity, the Oberammergau Passion play has remained one of the few ‘respectable’ anachronisms of folkloristic anti-Semitism in the Western world. Saul Freidman’s work assuredly is the most penetrating and readable account of this subject ever published. It is a model of historical scholarship.”—Howard M. Sachar
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Saul Friedman is Professor of Near East and Jewish History at Youngstown State University.
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