Mephisto in the Third Reich: Literary Representations of Evil in Nazi Germany by Barasch Rubinstein Emanuela

Author:Barasch Rubinstein, Emanuela [Barasch Rubinstein, Emanuela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: 2014-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Judaism

One would have thought that a play by a Jewish author on the rise of Nazism would have included a discourse on Judaism. But this play, insightful and unconventional as it is, touches very briefly upon the place of Judaism as part of the historical circumstance it discusses. Two acts, the first and the sixth, take place in Jerusalem. Also, the characters of King Saul, King David, and King Solomon are present to some degree in the play.

The first act begins with detailed instructions:

near the Tower of David, called Hell Ground by longtime residents of Palestine. In the royal box crumbling old stones, in elegant armchairs, sits KING SAUL, KING DAVID, and KING SOLOMON, eerily motionless, painted with gold and many colors like figures in a wax museum (p. 224).

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