(Jewish Group) Is 'Bambi' about Jewish persecution, Zionism or something else?

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A prince is born in the forest.

In this idyllic, verdant Eden, birds summon a menagerie of adorable woodland creatures – a mouse washing its face with a drop of dew, a chipmunk using a squirrel’s tail as a blanket. A rabbit thumps his foot on a log and announces the royal birth. The animals gather in a hollow to witness the nativity, cooing over a sleeping fawn. A magisterial owl says, “Well, this is quite the occasion.”

The owl and the rest of the animals congratulate the mother, and all stand in awe as the tiny, white-flecked prince takes his first, faltering steps.

This is how most of the world met Bambi, in a 1942 film by Walt Disney. The source material has a different origin for our hero.

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Well, that was different, but interesting.

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Reitter said the same year “Bambi” was published, Franz Blei wrote in his “Great Bestiary of German Literature” that the “Salten larvae” emerged as a “green or blue or black-and-yellow fly, depending on the color of the wastewater over which it lives out its one day.”

Salten was constantly reinventing himself both in his work and personal philosophy and, for that reason alone, it may be tricky to insist on any one interpretation of his most famous work