“Twenty-four years ago, the curtain never quite raised on the Rainer Werner Fassbinder play Der Müll, die Stadt und der Tod. The Jewish community, flexing its muscles for one of the first times since World War II, blasted the piece for being anti-Semitic.” This week the piece began its debut run in Germany’s Ruhr Valley. “And, over two decades later, feelings about the play among Germany’s Jews haven’t changed.”