![]() ![]() 2 But perhaps it is appropriate first to remind the reader of the kind of Jew Arthur Miller is.ĢMiller is an Ashkenazi Jew who was born in the United States to a family of Polish origins. 1 On the contrary, it is peopled with the traditional characters of the melting pot. With the exception of the early unpublished plays of The Simon Trilogy, which showed a Jewish family very similar to his own during the Depression, and of his recent play, Broken Glass, which deals with what it means to be Jewish, his dramatic work is not Jewish: it contains few characters whose names are overtly Jewish or whose behaviour reflects some character features usually associated with Jewishness. ![]() 1Paradoxically it is in his short stories, which are not as well-known as his dramatic work, that Arthur Miller has mostly spoken of (his) Jewishness and Judaism. ![]()
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