Kékesi, Zoltán;
(2025)
The blood libel in postwar New York: Erwin Piscator’s The Burning Bush (1949).
East European Jewish Affairs
10.1080/13501674.2025.2479250.
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Abstract
This paper discusses an unexplored chapter in the long aftermath of the Tiszaeszlár blood libel case (1882–1883), a lesser-known example of East Central and Central European exile theater, and a compelling episode in a postwar campaign to counter antisemitism in the United States. It follows the transnational transfers and intersecting trajectories of intellectuals, Leftist-antifascist culture, and historical memories between Hungary, Germany, and the United States. In doing so, the paper reconsiders the play as an example of antifascist humanism and addresses the following questions: how did émigré intellectuals from Central and East Central Europe transfer an emblematic story of anti-Jewish prejudice to a postwar audience? How did they respond to the recent European past and transform the cultural and political legacy of Leftist antifascism in the process? And finally, how did the latter shape the play's contribution to opposing antisemitism in the United States?
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The blood libel in postwar New York: Erwin Piscator’s The Burning Bush (1949) |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13501674.2025.2479250 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13501674.2025.2479250 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Ritual murder; Holocaust;Jewish responses; postwarmemory; documentarytheater |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office > UCL Institute for Advanced Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10206573 |
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