[muawiyah]

Looking beyond the surface arguments, which are all pretty weak, it's worth noting that Oscar Hammerstein's father was from a "nonpracticing Jewish family" ~ as they put it in his biography.

Given the way anti-semitism is sweeping Europe these days, it's inescapable that the this relationship is far more important than the blackness or whiteness of the actors.

[Stoat]

Looking beyond the surface arguments, which are all pretty weak, it's worth noting that Oscar Hammerstein's father was from a "nonpracticing Jewish family" ~ as they put it in his biography.

Given the way anti-semitism is sweeping Europe these days, it's inescapable that the this relationship is far more important than the blackness or whiteness of the actors.

That may indeed be a factor in this matter and I appreciate your bringing it up.  Killing the production for 'racial' reasons allows the anti-Semites to have their way without coming out of the shadows, although the breadth and scope of anti-Semitism in Europe is breathtaking and severely troubling in its brazenness and cancerous metastasis as well.

Looking beyond the surface arguments, which are all pretty weak, it's worth noting that Oscar Hammerstein's father was from a "nonpracticing Jewish family" ~ as they put it in his biography.

Given the way anti-semitism is sweeping Europe these days, it's inescapable that the this relationship is far more important than the blackness or whiteness of the actors.

[dennisw]

Jerome Kern ....
What is he? Chopped liver? He was Jewish too