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re: Half Jewish???

Posted by:	LegitOnce 10:59 pm EDT 08/05/14
In reply to:	Half Jewish??? - enoch10 07:21 pm EDT 08/05/14

As I understand it, the detail of Claire's ethnicity was added for the musical version. There's nothing in the original play that says she's not Jewish or Rom or anything else in particular. Could it be possibly to justify the unlikely presence of a woman who looks like Chita Rivera in a small village in Switzerland? Or is there some not very subtle political point being made here, e.g., if Claire were as Nordic as everyone else in town, maybe they would have believed her?

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