The Condemned of Altona: A Play in Five Acts

"The Condemned of Altona is a reminder that moral problems are real, irreducible and vital even when they are insoluble. It is, therefore, an event of first-rate importance. It is the work of one who is both a moral philosopher and a dramatist, of a writer who can present philosophical questions in the flesh and bones of concrete human situations." -Heinz Lubasz, The New Leader

The Condemned of Altona is an act of judgment on the twentieth century, which might have been an admirable era (the...