Jews who have seen the Oberammergau Passion Play, which depicts Jesus’ last days and historically has inspired anti-Semitic violence, say this year’s version is not as bad as in decades past ...

Over the past three years I worked with the leaders of the Oberammergau Passion Play as they put together the 42nd production for a pandemic-delayed 2022 season. The play has been performed in the ...

causing a local epidemic that killed nearly 100 people of Oberammergau. The terrified survivors begged God to spare their town from further deaths, vowing to perform a passion play, based on the life, ...

The events of the Last Supper, as depicted in Oberammergau's passion play Since that pledge, the town has only failed to perform the play on a handful of occasions, such as during the Covid-19 ...

Religious and political leaders in West Germany have failed to fulfill pledges that the text of the world-famed Oberammergau Passion Play would be altered to eliminate anti-Semitic references ...