Provocative Play raises complex questions about faith and the Holocaust at the Museum of Jewish Heritage — a living memorial to the Holocaust in the wake of the Holocaust, destruction and misery elicited varied responses from Jews.
Many cited their faith as a key element in their survival. For others, belief in God was quashed in the face of unprecedented pain and injustice. These two viewpoints come face to face in Rabbi Joseph Telushkin and David Brandes' profound play The Quarrel, which will be presented on Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. at the Muse um of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
A discussion with playwright and popular author Rabbi Joseph Telushkin will follow the performance. Based on the short story My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner by Chaim Grade, and adapted from the 1991 film by David Brandes, the play opens in Montreal in 1948. Two friends — Hersh an Orthodox rabbi, and Chaim, a secular Jewish writer — meet after years apart, each thinking the other had perished in the concentration camps. With the events of Auschwitz fresh in their minds, the two debate the role and relevance of religion in a post Holocaust world. Tickets to this event are $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors, and $12 for members.
Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is the author of Jewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religion, Its People and Its History among other best-selling works on Jewish history and religion. -- www.mjhnyc.org
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