Do Tarantino's 'Basterds' jibe with Jewish beliefs?

It is eye for eye, tooth for tooth.

When the blood soaked through the new Quentin Tarantino film 'Inglourious Basterds', the Jewish soldiers Bash scalp Nazi soldiers will meet to try to take revenge on his people and to stop the Holocaust.

Quentin Tarantino's World War II, a fantasy, and violence is nothing more than a cartoon bestiality, and perhaps chastening experience with some Jewish viewers. Such inverse form of schadenfreude: Giving Jews a taste of Ultimate Nazis of their own medicine.

Yet the movie is also a growing Genre Jewish-inspired movie where the victims are the winners. Anne Frank is no longer hidden in the ceiling, the fate of Judaism is no longer dependent upon the Gentiles, as a charitable Oskar Schindler.

In short, the Jews sat and they will not. But can the defense of Judaism, for example to take revenge?

Rabbi and researchers point out that Judaism is a distinction between acts of self defense and revenge, and the Jewish right to frown on Torture Enemy - even Adolf Hitler, "said Rabbi Joel Roth, a professor at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York.

"On the other hand, I also understand human emotions," he said. "The reluctance, would you like to see their scalp? No, but you must look at the context. And that may be better deterrent that could save further, perhaps to defend."

Rabbi Irwin Kula, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, New York's Jews, think tank shows the film one long "Fun Action of the Jews, instead of fantasy."

Roth meantime questions: the answer to let the Jews like David against Goliath "in which more fodder for those who see Israel is the aggressor and oppressor, and shelter for victims of centuries of persecution.

But anti-Semites is not a rule, films like "Schindler's List" or "Diary of Anne Frank", which is suffering of Jews, said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean Simon Wiesenthal Center, the world's human rights organization named after a Jewish survivor of Holocaust helped to produce in court the Nazis after WWII.

Cooper had not seen 'Inglourious Basterds', but he says, but it felt like a valuable addition to a new genre known as the Jewish resistance, as last year's "challenge", the company Jews sought refuge in the forests of Belarus during the Holocaust, and 2005's "Munich" on the murder of the Arab terrorists who murdered Israeli Olympic athletes in 1972.

This trend may be due to changing perceptions of Jewish power, because the Israeli military victory in the decades after the Holocaust, he said, Rota.

Moreover, the imaginary, the transition, which is notorious for his cruelty "assholes", in contrast to previous reports from the film - the place, even if justified, ultimately disastrous for those who are looking for, "says Antony Polonsky, a professor of Holocaust teaches Brandeis University.

"I do not think it is the view among Jews of those things," he said. "Immediately after the war was disagreement among those who survived the Nazi genocide of the company. But the strongest opinion that the murder was somewhere in the level of the killers are.
The Los Angeles Times