Israeli 'Les Misérables': Happiness comes with the anticipation of catastrophe - opinion
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Behind the humor is Jewish exhaustion: that even happiness comes with the anticipation of catastrophe. Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables was not merely a story of poverty and…
In 1972, as a teenager, I went with my parents to see Fiddler on the Roof with Chaim Topol at Manhattan's Rivoli Theatre.In the movie, we watched Tevye's daughter's wedding, and I experienced a life-changing event. The movie showed Russian Cossacks bursting into the celebration, destroying property, and turning Jewish joy into humiliation.The scene showed that most of the Jews stood stunned, and only one young man tried to fight back.The intermission began immediately after the violent antisemitic attack, and the audience enthusiastically applauded.
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