Le Juif polonais

Le Juif polonais (The Polish Jew) is a 1900 opera in three acts by Camille Erlanger composed to a libretto by Henri Caïn.

[2] A melodramatic climax occurs in act 2 when the sound of sleigh bells at his daughter's wedding reminds the innkeeper Mathias of the Jew he had murdered 15 years previously.

The opera was first performed in Paris at the Opéra-Comique on 11 April 1900,[3] when the cast included Gustave Huberdeau, the contralto Jeanne Gerville-Réache as Catherine,[4] the bass André Gresse as the President,[5] the tenor Edmond Clément as Christian and Victor Maurel as Mathias.

According to Alma Mahler, her husband had been reminded, when he heard the work in Paris, of his own Fourth Symphony by the sleighbells.

Viennese critics rated the work as inferior to another on the same theme by Karel Weis, produced in Vienna in 1902.