Title: The storm over The deputy,
Authors: Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020; Bentley, Eric, 1916-2020; Bentley, Eric, 1916-
Publisher: Grove Press
Year: 1964
Subjects: Hochhuth, Rolf.; Pius; Pius In literature.; Catholic Church Political activity.; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
Abstract: Details the controversial drama, The Deputy, concerning the Catholic response to the Holocaust.
Contents: Part I: How the play got produced -- Introduction to The deputy / Erwin Piscator -- Part II: What the theatre critics said -- Understudy for The deputy / Albert Bermel -- History as drama / Robert Brustein -- A theatre review / Harold Clurman -- The meaning of silence / Tom F Driver -- The deputy arrives / Richard Gilman -- Part III: Three editorials and a press release -- Silence / The New York times -- Echoes of The deputy / New York Post -- A statement by Cardinal Spellman / The New York Herald Tribune -- Character assassination / America -- Part IV: Hochhuth interviewed -- Interview with Rolf Hochhuth / Judy Stone -- Interview with Rolf Hochhuth / Patricia Marx -- Part V: Hochhuth's encounter with two persons concerned -- Pius XII and the Jews / G B Cardinal Montini (Pope Paul VI) -- Reply to Cardinal Montini / Rolf Hochhuth -- The Pope and the Jews / Albrecht von Kessel -- A playwright answers / Rolf Hochhuth -- Part VI: Comments of literary critics and philosophers -- Rolf Hochhuth's The deputy / Lionel Abel -- The deputy: guilt by silence? / Hanna Arendt -- The possibility of individual choice / Robert Gorham Davis -- On The deputy / Karl Jaspers -- The vicar of Christ / Alfred Kazin -- The Deputy and its metamorphoses / John Simon -- Reflections on The deputy / Susan Sontag -- Drama or pamphlet: Hochhuth's The deputy and the tradition of polemical literature / Rolf C Zimmermann -- Part VII: And of journalists, social scientists, historians -- The harassed Pope / Carl Amery -- Pius XII: a symbol / Arthur C Cochrane -- The dilemma of Pope Pius XII / Desmond Fisher -- The need for confession / Friedrich Her -- Pius XII / Robert Leiber S J -- Pius XII, the Jews, and the German Catholic Church / Guenter Lewy -- The real accomplishment / Golo Mann -- The real issue / James O'Gara -- Pope Pius XII and the Nazis / Leon Poliakov -- What some people have forgotten about God's "deputy" / I F Stone -- Part VIII: Bibliography / David Beams.