Sounds like a scene deleted from Borat … on the grounds of poor taste.
I guess I fail to see why it is a bad thing
Ditto. The presentation may be a little tacky, but isn’t this basically a live-action version of the various “Ask The…” threads here on the SDMB?
Having an actual Jewish person there sounds like a good idea even though I don’t know about the suggestion that this one person can generalize for larger groups of Jews. The presentation sounds totally ridiculous, but if you read the comments in the article it’s kind of poignant.
Well to be fair the whole museum seems a little on the “let’s be ridiculous to the point of provocation”
I have to feel they would have gotten the point across better if they had given the museum goers an opportunity to converse with Jews as one person to another rather than creating an artificial divide between them. They should have brought in some chairs and let people sit down and talk with each other as equals.
I agree; this seems dehumanizing and treats the person as a thing to be experienced - especially if it’s in the vein of, 'I talked to a Jew in a box about this once and they said X, ergo all Jews think X."
Attaching the fire extinguisher with “Zyklon B” painted on the side to the box was really over the line, IMHO.
ditto
Well they need to be behind glass and well guarded otherwise they might steal people’s money!!! 
Seriously, this is silly. Having Jews to sit around and chat with is a great idea, but separating them off like this is ridiculous.
About how it seems to me, and the people in the box are obviously OK with this or they wouldn’t participate.
Eh. It’s a living.
Reminds me of the movie The Man in the Glass Booth, and not in a good way (see the link to understand why).
Back in about 1988 or so, my firm invited some German consultants to Chicago to discuss partnership. I had lunch with them, the meetings were successful and we did become friends and colleagues over the years. However, one woman (she must have been around 30 or so at the time) remarked to me that I was the first Jew she had ever met. She seemed puzzled by this. I kept my mouth shut, but I found it pretty annoying that she didn’t seem to understand WHY she hadn’t met any Jews in Germany.
So, I agree that having a separation is awkward, and that a simple chat would be better, but I wonder if there was concern for security? And I wonder if they’re not exactly trying to make the point.
Somebody had a really great idea, and then had the really shitty idea of letting somebody turn it into “art.”
For this we worked our fingers to the bone to send you to college?
I don’t think that actor Don Keefer is Jewish, but every time I see this title, I think of what Anthony Fremont did to Dan Hollis.
This is exactly what I was thinking.
:rolleyes:
I’m not really going to defend the display because I’m a little uncomfortable with the idea myself, but the dehumanizing/not between equals/separation aspect is exactly why they’re doing this.