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Ghetto: Burgerlijk Treurspel in 3 Bedrijven

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The play unfolds in three acts within a crowded Jewish quarter and follows a blind, embittered shopkeeper and his extended household as poverty, suspicion, and communal pressure strain relationships. Scenes dramatize bargaining, accusations of theft and furtive behavior, conflicts between protecting honor and surviving hardship, and clashes between tradition and change; neighbors, religious figures, and kin alternately console, exploit, or condemn. The structure alternates intimate domestic moments with public confrontations, gradually revealing moral compromises and escalating tensions that lead to personal and communal tragedy. Themes include social marginalization, the corrosive effects of poverty, isolation produced by disability, and the limits of compassion under economic stress.

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Title: Ghetto: Burgerlijk Treurspel in 3 Bedrijven

Author: Herman Heijermans

Release date: June 5, 2021 [eBook #65535]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: Dutch

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GHETTO.

GHETTO.
BURGERLIJK TREURSPEL
in 3 Bedrijven
AMSTERDAM. – S. L. VAN LOOY.
1899.
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Voor de eerste maal opgevoerd door de „Nederlandsche Tooneelvereeniging” te Amsterdam op Zaterdag 24 December 1898.

  • DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

  • Sachel.
  • Rafaël, zijn zoon.
  • Esther, zijn zuster.
  • Aaron.
  • Rebecca.
  • Rebbe Haëzer.
  • Rose.
  • Een jood.
  • Een bewoner.
  • Een grijsaard.

Bewoners der Jodenwijk. [1]