Through a grant from the Association for Jewish Studies, University of Dayton English Prof. Miriamne Krummel will present a staged reading of Hyam Maccoby’s The Disputation at 3 p.m., Thursday, March 10 at the Downtown Dayton Metro Library. Maccoby, a Jewish British scholar and playwright, wrote the play as an

By Marshall Weiss, The Observer Through a grant from the Association for Jewish Studies, University of Dayton English Prof. Miriamne Krummel will present staged readings of two 20th-century plays that dig deep into virulent medieval Jew hatred in England and Spain. Beth Abraham Synagogue will be the venue for the

Shakespeare digs deep in his rhetorical toolbox to construct the perfect anti-hero By Miriamne Krummel, Special To The Dayton Jewish Observer The Theatre Department at Wright State University is staging William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (circa 1596) this month. Should this production be a topic of discussion for Dayton’s