Photograph: Moviestore Collection/Rex It’s a saccharine sweet story about a young deer who finds love and friendship in a forest. But the original tale of Bambi , adapted by Disney in 1942, has much darker beginnings as an existential novel about persecution and antisemitism in 1920s Austria. Now, a new translation seeks to reassert the rightful place of Felix Salten’s 1923 masterpiece in adult literature and shine a light on how Salten was trying to warn the world that Jews would be terrorised, dehumanised and murdered in the years to come. Far from being a children’s story, Bambi was actually...
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
