Shagal

This may have already been touched on somewhere on this board, but has anyone seen or read any interviews where Polanski addresses the self-deprecating Jewish humour in this film? Sure it's the 60s and our overly drastic, PC sensibilities were not in place, but also the second World War was pretty fresh in everyone's mind at this time (many were still finding out exactly what had happened in Nazi concentration camps). Were the film directed by a non-Jew, then I could understand it as a product of its time sort of thing, but the fact that Polanski saw so much anti-semitism first-hand, are we to assume that this is social commentary by way of conveying to the non-Jewish world how Jews feel they are portrayed? Or was Polanski at the time maybe having trouble with his own heritage? I've always wondered about it. Certainly it makes for a good old fashion kind of comedy, and the Brits get their share of the jabbing as well, which suits the goofy-Hammer Horror mood of the film. But it has always sat a little awkward with me (along with the fact that they find German vampires in Transylvania). Maybe it can just be choked up to the same thing as seinfeld, or john stewart, that Jews like poking fun at themselves (well then again all comedians now-a-days can only make fun of their own ethnicities, to joke about anyone else's is rascist.... anyhow, maybe someone more informed can fill me in.