"At a seminar held here in Turin, the students judged 'abstract' my views on the need for a commitment with regard to things of the world. I told them 'the fact that every two seconds a child dies of hunger somewhere, this is very real, not abstract '. And they said, 'No, it is abstract because there is no'. And I said: 'But if the child was dying here in our midst, on the floor, do not take everyone to help him?'. They said, 'Yes, if he were here would not be abstract, but it is far away, then it is'. I think it's appalling that people do not seem to live a thousand miles away or in need of aid nor able to inspire our own reaction. "
It 'hard to believe that German Jew born in 1926 death is something abstract. especially if the daughter of an actress and a rabbi, the age of two are forced to emigrate to America. First signs of anti-Semitism to his father, yet visionary for his peers.
"You know, it's when one becomes an object that is prescient of a certain kind of mockery."
Member States were the salvation for the little Judith, both the body and consciousness. Early age had to be aware of the tragedy that gradually progressed in his life. He knew the battle was needed to save German Jews. Even though an ocean separated them. He saw how his father, but unless it was personally involved in organizing aid for their relatives.
"The reason that human suffering does not seem abstract lies, perhaps, understanding the roots of my childhood because I was a child I understood what he went through my people into the field, and because I have found in their contract terms have a special obligation toward them forced their own since I did not suffer "
Catherine
(excerpts from the book History of the Living Theatre Cristina Valenti)
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