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lives of Michael and his mother, the
boy can think of only one protector:
He must create his own Golem.
Director-screenwriter Richard
Friedenberg has drawn sensitive per-
formances from Rea as the dignified
and tormented rabbi, Peter Tambakis
as the boy struggling with a sense of
justice and responsibility, and from

now in August is an offbeat
television film — part gritty
reality and part fantasy, cen-
tered on the curious friend-
ship between an Irish Catholic altar
boy and a refugee rabbi in post-
World War II Brooklyn.
The two-hour production, based
on the 1997 best seller by Pete
Hamill, debuts Aug. 12 at 8 p.m.
on the Showtime channel.
The year is 1947 and the main topic
of conversation in Brooklyn, and
between Michael Devlin and his
parochial school buddies, is the batting
average of Jackie Robinson, just signed
by the Dodgers as the first black player
in baseball's major leagues.
Michael lives in borderline pover-
Peter Tambakis as Michael Devlin and
ty with his mother, an Irish war
Stephen Rea as Rabbi Judah Hirsch in
bride whose husband — Michael's
Pete Hamill's "Snow in August."
father — was killed in the war.
In the mean streets outside, an Irish
Lolita Davidovich as his mother.
gang terrorizes the neighborhood and
Reflecting on a certain kinship
kills a Jewish storekeeper, a crime wit-
between the Irish and the Jews, Rea
nessed by Michael. A code against squeal-
spoke of a "shared sense of oppression."
ing keeps the secret bottled up in the boy.
An experience while taping the film
Actor Stephen Rea says he under-
in
Montreal gave him a taste of the
stands young Michael.
real
thing.
"In a place like Belfast, you have to
As
Rea passed through town dressed
learn to run very fast or talk very fast,"
as
the
Orthodox rabbi, someone hurled
Rea says. "It's a rough and ready life
an anti-Semitic remark at him, leaving
— I grew up with that."
him feeling "paralyzed and weak."
But in an interesting twist, the Irish
"It was shocking to me," he says, "how
Protestant actor, best known for his
abuse
so readily spilled out of him."
portrayal of an Irish revolutionary in
The
incident enhanced Rea's com-
The Crying Game, was cast as the rabbi
mitment
to the film, and to honoring
— a role Rea says he approached with
Holocaust
victims with its message.
"a lot of respect and trepidation."
"It's
about
something we should all
Michael meets Rabbi Judah Hirsch,
be on our guard about — that's
a Holocaust survivor and widower
racism," he says.
from Prague, who hires the boy as a
Rea says, "It is almost more impor-
Shabbos goy, a non-Jew who assists
tant
that the role was played by some-
Jews with tasks they're not allowed to
one
not
Jewish, to show the world that
perform on the Sabbath.
there's
solidarity."
An unlikely friendship blossoms
On the other hand, he says with a
between the two, and in some humor-
laugh, "I didn't want to put a Jewish
ous interludes Michael tries to teach
actor out of a job."
the rabbi English, particularly baseball
—JTA correspondent Michelle Dardashti
terminology.
in New York contributed to this report.
"What's a three-bagger?" Hirsch
asks. "A kind of suitcase?"
Showtime airs Snow in August 8
In return, the rabbi teaches the boy
p.m. Sunday, Aug. 12; 8 p.m.
Yiddish and tells him the legend of the
Friday Aug. 17; and 10:30 a.m.
Golem, who defended the Jews of Prague.
Saturday, Aug. 25.
When the neighborhood gang leader
assaults the rabbi and threatens the

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