Behind the humor is a real multiple-choice question for Eastern European Jews at the time. In the face of the Nazis, all "everyday" political options have failed, leaving only Zionism and Communism. The former is to escape, the latter is to fight. The former, it is possible to survive, the latter, nine deaths. The film confronts this real dilemma and tension, albeit in a joking way. In particular, showing communism as a misunderstanding and a joke; and in the end, trying to bridge this dilemma with happy singing and dancing and sex.
However, as a film with Israeli investors, the answer given in the film seems to want to go back to Israel (however, the rabbi also knows that there is already Palestine). In the film, Zionism is treated more "organic" and more "natural", which is everyone's instinctive reaction rather than indoctrination from the outside world. However, Jews "returning" to the land of Israel will now find that the arrest of Jewish communists by "Jewish" Nazis is no joke.
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