CNN —Arguably the least interesting thing about Leonard Bernstein — the legendary conductor and composer now being played by Bradley Cooper in an upcoming Netflix biopic called “Maestro”— was his nose.
However, any non-Jewish person putting on a fake nose in order to portray a Jew is colliding with a grim history.
I think we can and must discern between Cooper’s nose prosthesis and, for example, the virulent antisemitism embedded in the works of beloved children’s author Roald Dahl.
I don’t want to watch “Maestro.” I don’t really care whether you do, so long as you respect my feelings.
You cannot have a non-Jewish actor putting on a fake nose in order to play a Jew and not at least pause for a moment to consider the history.
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