Romeo and Jewliet – Jewcy https://jewcy.com Jewcy is what matters now Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:46:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.5 https://jewcy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-12.43.12-PM-32x32.png Romeo and Jewliet – Jewcy https://jewcy.com 32 32 A New Ballet Matches Jewish Jewliet with Nazi Romeo https://jewcy.com/arts-and-culture/new-ballet-matches-jewish-jewliet-nazi-romeo?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-ballet-matches-jewish-jewliet-nazi-romeo https://jewcy.com/arts-and-culture/new-ballet-matches-jewish-jewliet-nazi-romeo#comments Fri, 07 Jul 2017 14:46:50 +0000 http://jewcy.com/?p=160558 It’s as terrible and offensive as it sounds.

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If the Trumpian Julius Caesar wasn’t enough controversy for this summer, another theater piece came and went on July 2 in New York: Romeo and Jewliet, spelled exactly thus. It’s a modern ballet of the Shakesperean love story set in Vienna, 1938, back in town after its debut three years ago. It is a work of the small independent ballet company, American Liberty Ballet. Predictably, with that setting, it features a romance between a Nazi soldier and a Jewish woman. The venue for this performance was Theater 80, the same place that hosted Gilad Atzmon, the “ex-Jewish” conspiracy theorist, just two months ago.

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