Two comments on your fascinating post:
Despite everyone’s insistence, Oscar Hammerstein was NOT Jewish. His father’s family was Jewish, but his mother was Christian and he was raised in her church. He was rather emphatic about this.
In the play, Green Grows the Lilac, Jud/Jeeter was described as half-Native American (actually the very politically incorrect “half-breed”). Hammerstein made the decision to eliminate that aspect of the character. |
