Moisés Kaufman, the Pulitzer finalist and Tony and Emmy nominee behind The Laramie Project, joins us this week on Being Jewish with Jonah Platt for a conversation about Here There Are Blueberries, a groundbreaking play making its Broadway debut.

Jonah Platt, who co-produces the play, sits down with the playwright and director who grew up a gay, Orthodox Venezuelan kid in yeshiva. Kaufman explains why he thinks calling the Nazis monsters is dangerous, and why he draws a line between culpable, complicit and complacent that he says we all fall somewhere on.

Then it gets personal. Kaufman describes seeing the photographs that inspired his play on the front page of The New York Times and the almost 20 years it took to reach Broadway, the Auschwitz trip that left him staring at the shoes in his hotel room, and the one detail on that trip that made him furious. Why did London audiences react so differently from American ones? And what is it about this play that gets a silence he says he has never heard in 30 years of theater?

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