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WYN and HAROLD LANDIS Friday, JIM! 26, 1970-25 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Mich. Green Solid ME CABBAGE 0 l c }, Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday. FRESH FISH DEPARTMENT The finest and largest selection in the area. We clean, bone, skin and grind all fish free of charge. For special service call JO 6-4640 There is a spate of productions of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. There is one in England, one in Stratford, Canada, and there was one in New York City. Per- haps this is coincidence, perhaps there is some significance. If there is any meaning, it is difficult to tell whether it relates to social happenings or to the renaissance of Jewishness in literature. The "Merchant" is mainly the story of Shylock. That name has come down the years to stereotype the Jew as a cunning, shrewd and crafty manipulator of finance, a man willing to take his pound of flesh if he were not paid the money he lent. Shylock in common Amer- ican parlance is a money lender who extracts exorbitant "vigorish," or interest. And woe to the man who doesn't pay. He has forgotten Shakespeare's other piece of advice "neither a lender nor a borrower be." But Shylock only wanted the blood of his tormentor and the play has been the center of dis- cussions over the years as to whether Shakespeare was an anti-Semite or not. The fact is Shakespeare probably never saw a Jew in his life. Jews had been expelled from England before his time and were not allowed to return until after. Shakespeare was working from stereotypes but the genius of the writer gave Shylock, the character, a human- ity nevertheless. In the hand of Baron Lawrence Olivier it is another matter. I had occasion to see the novel produc- tion in London. The production was conceived by Jonathan Miller (of "Beyond the Fringe" fame), now a medical doctor. Miller, by the way, is also a Jew. Two things were interesting about the produc- tion. It was brought up to Victorian times, played in near-modern dress and it had Mr. Olivier playing Shylock. The Victorian mode of dress made it difficult to accept some of the plot which, in the mid- dle-ages framework, was plausible. But once that was past, I waited for the aria, the big speeches; the one by Jew-hater Portia on the quality of mercy and Shylock's "Bath Not A Jew Eyes." And there were some interesting and touching moments. The courtroom scene was con- ceived as a boardroom in which Shylock is read out of the business community and deprived of his property. What was touching was .0livier's performance. As I watch- THE EASY-To-shop ed him, he grew into the good, solid middle class Jewish burgher of the time. In him there was good and there was bad. In a dramatic scene, he uses the Tallis to pray for his daughter Jessica who has run off with a gentile. You begin to feel the man, and what comes out of the production is not whether Shakespeare was an anti-Semite (you couldn't care less), but that anti-Semitism exists and that it seems eocnomically motivated. Shylock is forced to accept con- version. He does it with a bitter kind of grace and goes off to scream. As the curtain comes down, he sings a Kaddish offstage. It was extremely hot in London that night but outside, near the fruit stalls of Covent Garden, there were knots of people arguing the sense and direction of the play. It had reached them that hard. Miss SusanKersh to 1 I'M Daryl Beck in Atlanta MISS SUSAN KERSH Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Kersh, former Detroiters of Atlanta, an- nounce the engagement of their daughter Susan Helene to Daryl Bernard Beck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman R. Beck of Atlanta. Miss Kersh is a senior in special education at Georgia State Univer- sity, where she is a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi Sweetheart Court. The future bridegroom will re- ceive a BA degree in marketing from Georgia State University, where he is affiliated with Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. A Deceniber wedding is planned. No woman should have a mem- ory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. — Oscar Wilde. mai NEW t ■ Chtl -411 1:144 0- ORLEAN S MALL taws" SHOPPING • ■•■ CE NTER \gal • - UNdER THE bRiciliT ORANGE ROOF AT ci REENfidd ANd TEN MILE