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Sep 27, 2024 · Dahl’s antisemitic views mean that this giant of children’s literature leaves a long but complicated shadow. Mark Rosenblatt has embraced this uncomfortable truth and explores the theory that the undertone of darkness is what made Dahl’s novels so successful.
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Oct 1, 2024 · One remarkable thing about Giant, which opened this week (a week in which Israel launched a strike on central Beirut), among a number of remarkable things, is that Mark Rosenblatt started writing...
Sep 27, 2024 · Mark Rosenblatt has included a large amount of Dahl’s biographical information in his text from his Norwegian background, his cruel schooling, his time as a fighter pilot and the death and illnesses of his children. He was 6 feet 6 inches tall hence GIANT.
Sep 19, 2024 · Rosenblatt has sought to show “how he said what he said” and not just to paint a “pantomime villain”. “I’m interested in how antisemitism works,” he explains.
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Sep 27, 2024 · Rosenblatt has a successful career as a director himself, but turns to playwriting with a play that many theatres would cavil at – and the Royal Court itself is still repairing the damage from an antisemitism controversy in 2022.
Sep 25, 2024 · Bart, What is Amy-Jill Levine’s opinion on the “did Jesus really exist?” question? I find your arguments persuasive – that a person of that name existed, preached an end times message to fellow Jews (including parables and directives towards more just and ethical lives), and was executed by the Roman procurator Pilate.
