Brief Brecht
WRITTEN 80 years ago, Bertolt Brecht’s one-act play, The Jewish Wife, is a chronicle of everyday German life at the dawn of the Nazi regime, and will be performed at JW3 on April 11 to mark Yom Hashoah. As the Third Reich tightens its grip, suspicion penetrates every layer of society.
Katharina Reinthaller directs, with actors Susanna Fiore and Peter Halpin and pianist Ilan Lazarus. It will be followed by a short Yom Hashoah ceremony led by Rabbi Roni Tabick and singer Aaron Isaac www.jw3.org Bertolt Brecht ACROSS
1 Unbridled joy in a family member’s achievement (Yiddish) (6)
5 Novelist - creator of ‘The GoldenHeaded God’? (6)
9 Moshav in the north-western Negev near the border with the Gaza Strip (3’2) 10 Get nothing in the mountains, drunk on these? (8)
12 King Saul’s wife (1 Sam. 14:50) (7)
13 Religious adjunct is smoky, which does annoy (7)
14 “Fiddler” movie’s lead actor has penny in back-money (5)
16 English name for the ‘Lechem haPanim’ temple offering (9)
18 Morning Prayers (Hebrew) (9)
21 Indian language used by Pat, a milkman (5)
22 Pit put in Her Majesty’s furs (7)
24 Ascetic Jewish sect entirely composed of cardinals, as it were (7)
26 One’s post getting one a place on The Suez Canal (8)
27 Cain’s son who lived 365 years, says the Torah (Gen. 5:24) (5)
28 Jewish girl who replaced Vashti as Ahasuerus’s queen (6)
29 Ha-Maariv ****** , the first blessing before the Shema and generally the opening prayer during Maariv (6) DOWN
2 A politician like Gladstone, one being in another place (5)
3 Shi’ite paramilitary organisation abounding in Lebanon (9)
4 She’s got a military medal, this servant (Yiddish) (7)
5 The ethnicity of Hushai in 2 Samuel 15:32 (7)
6 Subject to select, we hear (5) You 7 German-Jewish banking family eponymous with their traditional home town (9)
8 Purim’s traditional three-cornered pastries (Yiddish) (11)
11 Jewish composer of ‘The Hebrides’ overture (11)
15 Devotees of the songs and poems of King David ... (9)
17 ...whose wife he stole from Uriah the Hittite (9)
19 A neat thief (7) 20 The act of Charity (Hebrew - variant spelling) (7)
23 Cattle hard to find in South Wales town (5)
25 Ruth’s mother-inlaw - if she’s upset, I complain (5) HOW TO PLAY: Use the letter tiles from the game of Scrabble to spell out the answers to the clues below. Do not use the two blank tiles. Place the tiles on the Scrabble board according to the grid references given with the clues. If you successfully complete the puzzle, you will have used all 98 tiles.
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2B Possibly a square 2B Down. (5)
2E Linus may swallow CT medicine. (7) 2J All at sea. (6)
4H Say hello to the top table. (4)
4O Fight over half a book. (3)
6A It’s no fun for the antiques dealer. (4, 3) 7I Get in the boat. (6)
8N State that it’s only half a prison. (4)