Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

April 18, 2019

A Play about the Lehman Brothers Dips into Anti-Jewish Anti-Capitalism

More barukh Hashems than New York has skyscrapers.

Written by the Italian Jewish playwright Stefano Massini and first staged in Milan in 2015, The Lehman Trilogy tells the story of the family that founded Lehman Brothers, from their arrival in American in the 1840s through their descendants’ Wall Street success to the firm’s collapse during the 2008 financial crisis. The play, translated into English and abridged from its original five hours, is now making a brief appearance on Broadway. Judith Miller writes in her review:

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