Judaism on Trial

From: Forward | Date: May 2, 1997 | Copyright information

Forward
05-02-1997
Judaism on Trial

The idea for scholar Hyam Maccoby's play "The Disputation" first came to him when he was 16 years old. A British-born Jew raised in Sunderland in the north of England, Mr. Maccoby was reading in Heinrich Graetz's multi-volume "History of the Jews" about the Barcelona Disputation of 1263 -- a debate between the great medieval rabbi Nachmanides and the converted Jew Pablo Christiani concerning the truth of their respective religions -- when it struck the young boy that the sheer facts of the four-day event made the stuff of good drama. The year was 1940.

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