Oberammergau (Book)
James Shapiro
Release Date: 03 Jul 2000
Format: Hardback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780316854658
ISBN-10: 0316854654
To a modern day visitor the Bavarian village of Oberammergau seems to stand outside of time. Little seems to have changed since 1632 when, according to local legend, Oberammergau was threatened by an outbreak of plague. The desperate villagers - both the healthy and the infected - vowed to perform a Passion Play every ten years if God would spare them. From that day on, plague claimed no more victims in Oberammergau. The Oberammergau Passion Play provides a powerful lens on some of the conflicts that have dominated European culture: the Thirty Years War, the Counter-Reformation, the two World Wars and most significantly the Holocaust. Whilst the play has fiercely resisted challenges to its traditions over the years it has not been able to resist the charge of anti-Semitism . However when the play is performed in 2000 in front of 4 million visitors it will be unlike any other Passion Play. It has been grudgingly but dramatically revised. The Jews will no longer be to blame for the killing of Christ. In this book James Shapiro uses the Oberammergau passion play to view fierce cultural, historical and religious tensions.
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