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Article: Arthur Miller's Crypto Jews
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- Washington Jewish Week
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- April 10, 2008
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Arthur Miller's Crypto Jews
Arena Stage festival examines two plays
Theater Review
Even if most of Arthur Miller's prodigious output is not obviously Jewish, American Jews take pride in claiming the playwright as a native son.
America's great 20th-century moralist, Miller wrote plays that seem, first, to tell the quintessential American story. From his early works, including All My Songs and The Crucible, to his more meditative later pieces, among them, The Last Yankee and I Can't Remember Anything, Miller explored what it was like to be a man in an era when a good, hard day's labor was itself a thing of beauty and accomplishment.
And nobody has told the story of the American family with as ...
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