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Tags: marriage
Tales from Landshut
Sperr’s play reflects the ongoing debate in postwar Germany over Nazism and its reverberations. The play focuses on two successful Germans who work in construction. The wife of one of the businessmen was a Jew who was deported from Nazi Germany and died in an extermination center. In order to protect his daughter from the Nazis, the surviving husband changed his daughter’s name and religion. The other businessman remains a devout supporter of Nazism and its policies. Ironically, the daughter of the Jewish mother and son of the other businessman are engaged to marry.
The Invasion of Skokie
It’s 1978 and neo-Nazis are about to march in Skokie, Illinois when a nice gentile boy goes to Skokie to ask a Jewish family for their daughter’s hand in marriage.