Abraham on Anti-Semitism
Monday, January 29, 2007
F. Murray Abraham, who won the Oscar for Amadeus, is playing Shylock in the Merchant of Venice and Barabas in The Jew of Malta, which New York Magazine calls "two of the biggest Jewish sterotypes in history." Why?
Was there something about anti-Semitism that you wanted to address?
It’s all around us—any kind of prejudice, not just anti-Semitism. Who is that guy, Kramer, who said those terrible things?
Michael Richards.
Where is that coming from? I don’t know that Kramer really knew that about himself. Stirring it up and exposing it is a good thing. Maybe he’ll fix it.
You know, for the longest time I thought you were Jewish. But your father was a Syrian Christian.
Isn’t that interesting? I must have a Jewish soul. And Syria is not Arab—Syria is Semites. We’re all cousins. I wonder why we don’t get along together better. God help us.
Do you worry people will wonder about a man of Syrian descent playing these vicious anti-Semitic stereotypes?
Anybody who says that is the thing they object to. Awful. I think if it’s a decent performance, they’ll see a human being instead of all these stereotypes.
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