They are, I know that, but you have to understand the historical reality of famines and the hard choices they brought. Look at the story again. The starving kids literally see a house make of food. Really, why bury the jew-naming in allegory (or in some picture that may have had little to do with the original story, at a time when the star of David was not always synonymous with jews) when they have *explicit* references to their untrustworthiness in folk tales?