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Captain Webber (Kirk Alexander) has been called into Whitehall. He’s to travel to Australia to sort out the problem of the internees. He’s been chosen because he’s Jewish.
Curator’s notes
The director and writer Ben Lewin has created a subtly amusing scene between Captain Webber and the nameless bureaucrat in Whitehall. It’s a fine evocation of the assimilated Jew who is one of the elite of British society and an officer in the British Army, and an evocation of a particular breed of stitched up Englishman to whom Captain Webber is 'a Jew’. Just who, or what, is a Jew is an important theme of this series. Captain Webber, who is to be sent to Australia to sort out the terrible mistake, is Jewish but not Orthodox, Alexander Engelhardt (Joseph Spano) is an internationally known Jewish violinist from Austria who has no religion, while Rabbi Aronfeld (Moshe Kedem) is an Orthodox Jew. What they have in common is their long history of persecution.
