I greatly appreciated Dave Rich’s critique of The Lehman Trilogy; he did an excellent job of laying out the dangers of the normalisation of antisemitic tropes (“Antisemitic tropes back on stage again”, Focus). His highlighting of specific aspects where unnecessary “Jewishness” was injected divulges his sophisticated understanding of the material and its impact.
I’m left deeply perplexed that in his closing paragraph he does not call for the condemnation of this play. I fail to understand how Mr Rich can claim that those behind the play are not “a bunch of Jew-haters” when the entirety of the article makes it clear that the fundamental antisemitism isn’t accidental.
Aryeh Barson
Santa Cruz, California
