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Welcome To Lodz Poland: Population Anti-Semite

Money grubbing Jews as depicted by Lodz artists.Money grubbing Jews as depicted by Lodz artists.The Jewish Theater of New York's season debut, "Last Jew in Europe" opened yesterday. The play is described as a tragicomedy and follows the story of one interfaith couple in Lodz, Poland on the road to wedded bliss. The comedic part ensues when the couple, a Polish Jew and his Catholic fiancee, meet a Mormon who has come to Lodz (which also happens to be the anti-semitic capital of the world in this play) to reveal the town's Jewish families. As the husband-to-be has concealed his religion from his fiancee, you can see where all of this convoluted, foiled plot is headed.

What makes the play all the more surreal is that is based on a true story. I'm assuming liberties were taken with the Mormon subplot, but perhaps not in the disclosure of the play's location.

The Jewish Theater of New York invites New Yorkers on a trip, lasting one-hour, twenty-five minutes, to a city that’s an anti-Semite’s Paradise, existing today, and located right in the middle of the EU. Welcome to Lodz, Poland, where anti-Jewish declarations are graphically exhibited in almost every street corner and calls for sending Jews back to the gas chambers go unchallenged.


Beth Gottfried Lisogorsky is a professional blogger whose work has appeared on numerous sites from Rotten Tomatoes to PopMatters. She loves film, TV (yes "the boob tube"), and music and has critiqued on all three. In 2004, she published a book


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