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The Australian opera and theater director Elijah Moshinsky, who died on Jan. 14 of COVID-19 complications at age 75, was celebrated for his onstage collaborations with superstar singers from Luciano Pavarotti to Plácido Domingo, and stage legends from Helen Mirren to Judi Dench. Yet Moshinsky’s most ardent lifelong inspiration was arguably drawn from his Jewish experience.
The moral and ethical imperatives displayed in his work drew directly from wide-ranging exposure to Yiddishkeit.
Moshinsky’s Orthodox Jewish parents had fled from Vladivostok in the Soviet Union to the Shanghai French Concession in China, where he was born.
The Shanghai French Concession was an area under French leadership until 1943, when France, under Nazi occupation, signed it over to the Axis forces of Japan.