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Epstein’s story calls to mind the way that Jews have been accused for centuries of stealing the blood of non-Jewish children to use in religious rituals, often to make matzah for Passover, in what is known as a “blood libel.” The blood libel charge was leveled routinely at Jews beginning in the Middle Ages, and it was used to justify countless deadly pogroms and vigilante actions. 1 … So now we have a request. “They could have made [the more recent owner] a Winthrop descendant just as easily. ☝️, Awesome, You’re All Set! by Alessia Santoro US Senate confirms Lloyd Austin as first Black secretary of defense, Swiss court jails Israeli diamond magnate for 5 years for corruption, Syrian media reports Israeli airstrikes near western city of Hama, IDF says it shot down drone that crossed into Israeli airspace from Lebanon, 1st treaty to ban nuclear weapons enters into force, ratified by just 61 nations, Norman Golb, pioneering Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish history scholar, dies at 92, Bedouin women’s activist who backed polygamy joins Ya’alon’s Telem, Jewish Harvard Medical School professor dies climbing in Pakistan’s mountains, IDF troops arrest 4 settlers after 2 tried to break into West Bank base, Graffiti calling to kill Arab bus drivers spray-painted in West Bank settlement, Not just for selfies: A transitional Twitter account let the world see the Biden-Harris priorities, and prepare accordingly, even before the new administration took office, When the Israelites prepared to leave Egypt, they knew what they needed to do, yet could not have known what would follow – a sentiment that resonates today (Bo), The memorial for coronavirus victims, a step toward healing, recalled the Yom Kippur service when we remember those we have lost, Donald Trump as a messianic cultic figure, In the former president, echoes of another figure in history who left a polarizing trail of broken communities, conspiracies and heresy accusations, The American Jewish community: United, none may be blotted out. Caplan said she wouldn’t be surprised if no one on the set, even the Jews involved in the production, knew about blood libel. It's been ingrained in popular culture that the White House was painted white to cover up damage after the British set fire to the building in 1814 during the War of 1812. 17 hours ago, by Victoria Messina He asks his uncle to remind him why the white house was white. One suggested that the show’s creators might have been alluding to the fact that H.P. By signing up, I agree to the Terms & to receive emails from POPSUGAR. “I wonder if that influenced the otherwise inexplicable though no less troubling change of the name,” said Magda Teter, a professor of history and Judaic studies at Fordham University whose book “Blood Libel: On the Trail of an Antisemitic Myth” was released in January. For as little as $6/month, you will: We’re really pleased that you’ve read X Times of Israel articles in the past month. . Note that this letter was written three months before the United States even declared war against Britain. Lovecraft Country, a novel in stories, is the other biggie and the inspiration for the HBO series of the same name. Get the daily inside scoop right in your inbox. It's been ingrained in popular culture that the White House was painted white to cover up damage after the British set fire to the building in 1814 during the War of 1812. Not quite. 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(The show’s producers include Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams, who is Jewish.) Sign in to stop seeing this, In this original Holocaust film, a Jewish inmate makes up a language to survive, Director Vadim Perelman, who lost relatives in the Shoah, says his movie ‘Persian Lessons’ also portrays the Nazis’ humanity to show that evil isn’t always committed by monsters, With theater actors’ legs intact, TV’s ‘Rehearsals’ breaks a heart instead, Actors Erez Drigues and Noa Koler, a one-time real-life couple, bring their fictionalized break-up to Kan for a surprise runaway hit that’s an ode to the shuttered theater world. The show brings to light the extreme racism that existed in that era while unfolding an emotional storyline. Lovecraft Country is a 2020 HBO American Drama/Horror series, based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff. Verdict: A little scary, but mostly in the follicular … Why does HBO’s anti-racist ‘Lovecraft Country’ stumble into anti-Semitic tropes? His spirit haunts the home, making it unsafe for Leti and her tenants and friends, until an exorcism summons the mutilated bodies of his victims and restores psychic order. The family flees to their woody … (He also isn’t nearly as scary.) ‘Erratic’ or ‘Strategic Clarity’: What to make of Trump’s Middle East legacy? Monsters are everywhere in Lovecraft Country […] Some have slimy, grayish skin, tentacles, razor-sharp teeth and dozens of eyes. 16 hours ago, by Monica Sisavat Justice! Jonathan Majors stars in the new HBO series, "Lovecraft Country," which has been prompting discussions about so-called sundown towns in the U.S. (Mary Mathis for the Washington Post via Getty Images) “Lovecraft Country” wouldn’t be alone in stumbling into anti-Semitic tropes. That was exactly the time when Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and convicted sex offender, was charged with sex-trafficking minors and died in a New York City jail. In March 1812, Congressman Abijah Bigelow wrote in a letter, "There is much trouble at the white house, as we call it, I mean the President's." HBO’s Lovecraft Country brings horror front-and-center in not only the supernatural form, but also in a historical look at the terrifying nature of racism in the 1950s. The show’s main characters are all Black, and the white characters are either members of a secret society or racist sheriffs and cross-burning neighbors. But intention is only part of the picture when assessing stereotypes in popular culture, according to Aryeh Tuchman, the associate director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. Leticia shines in this episode. “Anti-Semites certainly know the narratives… I don’t think the alt-right, KKK crowd is going to watch the show, but people don’t need to watch something to get a sound bite.”, The people I spoke to offered various theories for why the name Epstein might have been chosen. George replies that enslaved people painted the building white after it was scorched by the British during the War of 1812. Lovecraft Country seeks not to retell the stories of H.P. "Stories are like people," says Tic, who is on his way home to … So I was surprised Sunday night to hear a typically Jewish last name applied to a character whose only appearance was as a ghost — and whose story instantly evoked one of history’s most durable anti-Semitic stereotypes. In Jim Crow America, a sundown town was an all-white town that was segregated, but would often intimidate or even go as far as use violence against black people. Tic then notices burn marks under the floor, and they deduce that the former restaurant was burned down by racists before scrambling out. “You have to be aware of how things can be taken and misconstrued.”. ‘B een thinking about something my brother said,” Jurnee Smollett says on the “Sundown” episode of the HBO series Lovecraft Country.That’s the tip-off that this new TV show is another Smollett-family racial hoax. Photo: HBO. Prominent Lovecraft scholar S.T. “For a show which is so on the money in addressing American racism,” he added, “a character who to me feels like a giant red flag with regard to blood libel perhaps indicates how easily anti-Semitism can blend in with society to the point where it’s easy to miss.”. Can America inoculate against the dire threat of ‘us vs. them’? But the Smollett Effect (begun by the 2019 scandal in which actor Jussie Smollett vilified the city of Chicago and the nation) is part of a larger pattern of Systemic Racism … Why doesn’t the NYTimes rely on its own archives? Meanwhile, a British Jewish group last month criticized another popular show, “Umbrella Academy,” for featuring a race of powerful lizard people, the centerpiece of a widespread anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, and showing an evil overlord speaking Yiddish. George ices his knee. Sign up for our Celebrity & Entertainment newsletter. Lovecraft Country, meanwhile, sent its characters across the country (and around the multiverse) first, placing the massacre as backstory for the secondary older characters George (Courtney B. Vance) and Montrose (Michael K. Williams). 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It's only now, in the penultimate episode, that we arrive in Tulsa, in search of the Book of Names which the characters discover was burned in the massacre. The show references the little-known history of “sundown towns,” communities which were predominantly or all-white where it was implied Black people should leave before sunset. “I have significant questions about why they made that choice, because both historically and narratively it seems like a bad one,” said Jennifer Caplan, a professor of religious studies at Towson University who studies Jews in popular culture and is familiar with both the book and the series. The eighth episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country Season 1 is titled “Jig-A-Bobo”, written by series creator Misha Green, along with Ihuoma Ofordire, ... men with god complexes” written into the teleplay can take aim at the current occupant of the White House and his followers, that such men have not experienced the worst of their lives and therefore are anything but god. But is George's story about why the White House is white actually true? It's set in the racially segregated Jim Crow America of the 1950s. [which] says nothing about the person or character” and 2) “it suggests that Lovecraft’s racism is so heinous a character flaw that it negates the entirety of his literary … Of course, as is the theme of this show, there are horrors that lurk outside, in the white neighbourhood she now lives in, and horrors of the more ghostly kind on the inside. According to Smithsonian Magazine, enslaved people likely contributed to all facets of construction, including carpentry, masonry, and, yes, painting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvamPJp17Ds. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories On Twitter, I found a single reaction to Hiram Epstein’s name — one that matched my own. Reviews and summaries of the episode published on Sunday night and Monday morning were silent on the topic, as was the official podcast featuring a writer from the show that was released right after the episode aired, even as the hosts discussed the “creepy scientist” and the history of medical experimentation on Black bodies. She said she teaches about the trope in her introduction to Judaism class every year, and the idea is new even to most of her Jewish students. In the third episode of Lovecraft Country, the spirit of a dead white scientist roars, “Get out of my house,” to the building’s new Black tenant. Free Sign Up. Could “Lovecraft Country,” which deals so elegantly with the Black American experience, really have a blood libel embedded in its plot? It's honestly refreshing to watch a show where the white wigs are on the struggle bus and the black hair is laid. Hiram Epstein, the episode reveals, was a University of Chicago scientist who conducted gruesome experiments on Black children and adults in the basement of the Winthrop House, a decrepit mansion in a white neighborhood that a main character, Leti Lewis, purchases and renovates. Lovecraft, the early-20th-century horror writer whose oeuvre inspired the book and show, was virulently anti-Semitic, in addition to racist. The ’paper of record’ is getting its Israel-related facts wrong, and it isn’t even correcting the errors that contradict its past reporting. But as the journalism we do is costly, we invite readers for whom The Times of Israel has become important to help support our work by joining The Times of Israel Community. While the server goes to the back for what seems like their coffee orders, Atticus realizes that the walls are painted white. This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback”. The values of the Torah are what bring the Jewish People together. Get all the key information you need to know as America decides between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. About a century later, Theodore Roosevelt finally made "White House" the building's official name in 1901. Atticus "Tic" Sampson Freeman is one of the main characters in Lovecraft Country. Misha Green, the showrunner, and Jurnee Smollett, the Jewish actress who plays Leti, did not respond to requests for comment, nor did Ruff. Not because Lovecraft Country isn’t good television – it’s great television – but because, as well as being a hugely influential pulp fiction author, Lovecraft was a notorious racist. “But you need to educate yourself. 13 hours ago, by Chanel Vargas He is a Korean war vet who always has a pulp novel in his back pocket, and wears his heart on his sleeve despite the daily injustice of living in Jim Crow America. But why make him have a Jewish last name? It’s George’s entire reason for the guidebook — keeping Negroes safe. What’s clear is that the original novel on which the series is based, “Lovecraft Country” by Matt Ruff, contains no Epstein character. George mentions that it was painted that way to hide the scorch marks from being burnt in the War of 1812 as Tic slides back a piece of linoleum from the scorched floor underneath. When you’re dealing with a topic that is so fraught as allegations of ritual murder, then to know that these allegations have been leveled against Jews for thousands of years is something you need to pay attention to.”, I don’t want to say you can never have a villain in a movie or TV show have a stereotypically Jewish name, but you need to educate yourself. On HBO's Lovecraft Country, Tic, Leti, and George battle not only monsters but also unsavory racists while on the road. 1 day ago. “While the fictional world of the series draws from history and mythology in many instances, this character’s name was neither conceived nor intended as a reference to the trope cited,” the network said. Unlike other news outlets, we haven’t put up a paywall. If so, please join The Times of Israel Community. The jeering racists, threatening signs and armed gangs of white people they encounter are every bit the menace as the things waiting for them in Lovecraft Country proper. Lovecraft portrayed these powerful and sadistic beings as extraterrestrial octopus monsters, and Lovecraft County portrays them as, well, white people, but the spirit is the same. His search for his missing father, Montrose, takes him on a personal journey as he uncovers a dark, secret family legacy. A result of him being on the road and being attacked by white folks. In the book, the ghost that haunts the house Leti buys is named Hiram Winthrop — explaining the mansion’s name — and he isn’t a doctor. (Yes, even the ghosts in this show are racist.) © 2020 The Times of Israel , All Rights Reserved, Hiram Epstein, center, is a character who appears as a ghost in the third episode of 'Lovecraft Country.' He is portrayed by Jonathan Majors. Along the way, they stop at Simmonsville Dinette, which they thought was going to be a Black-friendly restaurant called Lydia’s. It seems weird.”, I have significant questions about why they made that choice, because both historically and narratively it seems like a bad one. “Although most people aren’t going to pick up on it, the ones who will are the ones we don’t want to be perpetuating these stereotypes,” she said. They’re sore from having two shattered knee caps. A blood libel charge tore apart an upstate New York town in 1928, and the trope featured prominently in Nazi propaganda. George realizes the reason why the diner has a new name and white instead of red brick—the old one was burned down by racists who … Great, Click the ‘Allow’ Button Above The new HBO drama Lovecraft Country is tough to categorize. When they are in a sundown … Yes, the White House had really been burned. White supremacy is at the heart of these texts and this media moment, and that means Jews are also important to Lovecraft Country – or could have been.In the article ‘Skin in the Game‘ (2017), Eric K. Ward explains that ‘antisemitism is not a sideshow to racism’ but its theoretical core. With all that said, the White House was predominantly built (and rebuilt) by enslaved and freed Black laborers. (Elizabeth Morris/HBO) In the new HBO series "Lovecraft Country," a young Black Korean War veteran named Atticus "Tic" Freeman (Jonathan Majors) explains why he loves the sci-fi novel "Princess of Mars" even though its protagonist is a Confederate soldier. (About Hitler, he wrote in the early 1930s, “I know he’s a clown but god I like the boy!”). Lovecraft is unveiled, near where his home once stood, following a ceremony on the 79th anniversary of the fantasy horror writer’s death in Providence, Rhode Island, March 15, 2016. Lovecraft, nor is it an allegory, for nothing about American culture is hidden in this story. “Never Have I Ever,” a dramedy that came out this spring, included a diverse cast but drew criticism for poking fun at the single Jewish character in ways that reflected anti-Semitic stereotypes. The famous mansion on 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. was first painted white in 1798 with lime-based whitewash. While “Lovecraft Country” has brought the characters and themes of its namesake to a wider audience, its more profound impact is in its illumination of Blacks’ plight in small-town America. Joshi, who has made insightful contributions to the study of weird fiction, refuted the arguments for changing the award stating that 1) the award “acknowledges Lovecraft’s literary greatness . The president of the United States, presidential aides are calling it “Kung-Flu” in the White House. Another possibility could be that the name was in the ether as filming took place last summer and fall. 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