28 Friday, November 11, 1983
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Only Five of 28 ADL Revisions Made in Oberammergati Play
NEW YORK—Revisions Anti-Defamation League of Freedman, director of
made in the script for next Bnai Brith.
ADL's Intergroup Affairs
year's 350th anniversary
"The production pre- Division. He pointed out
performance of the sently being prepared will that only five of 28 changes
Oberammergau Passion offer audiences a view of suggested by ADL to reduce
Play do not go far enough in Christianity transmitting the play's anti-Semitic tone
reducing its anti-Jewish not love, but anti-Semitic have been made by the pro-
content, according to the prejudice," stated Theodore ducers. The changes were
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our proposed changes would
render the play 'less
colorful' is subject to serious
question," Freedman wrote.
"Surely the passion story
can be told without the con-
tinuance of the anti-Jewish
aspects of the performance."
Freedman paid tribute to
Mayor Hofmann's predeces-
sor, the late Ernst Zwink,
with whom he met in 1980.
It was at Zwink's request
that ADL submitted its list
of recommended changes.
Observing that ADL con-
sidered its proposals the
"bare minimum," Freed-
man told the mayor that the
agency could "not be satis-
fied with anything less than
what was proposed. We re-
gret the failure of the
authorities in Oberammer-
gau to complete the task, so
auspiciously begun in 1980,
of rectifying an old injus-
tice."
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proposed by two Temple
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The Oberammergau
pageant, staged by the
Bavarian village since
1634, has become a major
attraction for millions of
visitors and village leaders
are hoping that the special
anniversary staging, to run
from May to September,
1984, will break all prev-
ious attendance records.
In a letter to Oberam-
mergau Mayor Frank
Hofmann, Freedman said
the ADL is "deeply trou-
bled" that no further
changes are to be made to
the script, despite efforts
by ADL and others "to
bring the play into con-
formity with contempor-
ary Catholic thought."
The ADL official was re-
sponding to Mayor Hof-
mann's statement that
it would be "impossible"
to revise the play further.
"To suggest as you do that
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Former Premier Menahem
Begin failed to attend the
memorial service on Mt.
Olives last Friday to mark
the first anniversary of the
death of his wife, Aliza.
Begin's children, Premier
Yitzhak Shamir and his
wife Shulamit, dozens of
friends as well as jour-
nalists did show up, how-
ever, for the 15-minute
ceremony.
Begin was known to have
been exceptionally close- to
his late wife, and therefore
it was expected that he
would be present at the
service. The fact that he was
not was interpreted as an
indication that he is in poor
health.
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dence 60 days ago and has
not emerged since, repor-
tedly because of a skin dis-
ease which prevents him
from shaving. He has seen
only family members and
close associates, Yehiel
Kadishai and Cabinet Sec-
retary Dan Meridor. Even
Shamir has not seen Begin
since he assumed office.
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and loans given to Israel
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times at home, have been
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