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The Quarrel
Author(s): Rabbi Joseph Telushkin & David Brandes
Two childhood friends reunite after years of separation. One has become a pious rabbi, the other a free-living writer. Both are survivors, both lost their families to the Holocaust. Each assumed the other was killed. Their chance encounter in a park sparks an old quarrel regarding God and ethics that was the cause of their estrangement many years earlier.
Format: Drama
Cast Size: 3M
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production: Premiered in 1999 at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, DR2 Theatre, NYC 2008
Original Source Material: Originally a Canadian film based on My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner, a short story by Yiddish writer Chaim Grade.Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations