Plays Of The Holocaust

Author : Elinor Fuchs
Publisher : New York : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015012400696

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Plays of the Holocaust by Elinor Fuchs Pdf

Comprises the texts of the following plays, in English: Nelly Sachs, "Eli: A Mystery Play of the Sufferings of Israel"; Liliane Atlan, "Mister Fugue or Earth Sick"; Peter Barnes, "Auschwitz"; Jozef Szajna, "Replika"; Joshua Sobol, "Ghetto"; James Schevill, "Cathedral of Ice". Pp. 303-310, "A Selected Bibliography of Plays of the Holocaust", contain an annotated listing of 82 plays dealing with the Holocaust.

Author : Claude Schumacher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521624150

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Staging the Holocaust by Claude Schumacher Pdf

'To portray the Holocaust, one has to create a work of art', says Claude Lanzmann, the director of Shoah. However, can the Holocaust be turned into theatre? Is it possible to portray on stage events that, by their monstrosity, defy human comprehension? These are the questions addressed by the playwrights and the scholars featured in this book. Their essays present and analyse plays performed in Israel, America, France, Italy, Poland and, of course, Germany. The style of presentation ranges from docudramas to avant-garde performances, from realistic impersonation of historical figures to provocative and nightmarish spectacles. The book is illustrated with original production photographs and some rare drawings and documents; it also contains an important descriptive bibliography of more than two hundred Holocaust plays.

Author : Robert Skloot
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988-04-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780299116637

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Darkness We Carry by Robert Skloot Pdf

Offering an informed critical approach, Skloot discusses more than two dozen plays and one film that confront the issues and stories of the Holocaust.

Author : Robert Skloot
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299090739

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The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 1 by Robert Skloot Pdf

This volume contains these four plays: Resort 76 by Shimon Wincelberg Will the relentless oppression of the starving workers in a ghetto factory destroy their faith in God? Their love of life? Their ability to resist? If a cat is more valuable than a human being, have hope and goodness been eliminated from the world? A moving and terrifying melodrama. Throne of Straw by Harold and Edith Lieberman Through the career of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Lodz, Poland Judenrat, we come to understand the horror of “choiceless choice,” of how giving up some to save others was the worst nightmare for those who sought the responsibilities of ghetto leadership. An epic play with music and song. The Cannibals by George Tabori The children of murder victims assemble to enact ritually the destruction of their fathers in the presence of two survivors. As the sons become their fathers, the most profound ethical questions of the Holocaust are raised concerning the limits of humanity in a world of absolute evil. A daring tragicomedy. Who Will Carry the Word? by Charlotte Delbo (translated by Cynthia Haft) In the austere, degraded setting of a concentration camp, twenty-two French women attempt to keep their sanity and hope as, one by one, they fall victim to the Nazi terror. Will anyone believe the story of the survivors? A poetic drama of resistance and witness.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351596084

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Holocaust Theater by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

Facts about the Holocaust are one way of learning about its devastating impact, but presenting personal manifestations of trauma can be more effective than citing statistics. Holocaust Theater addresses a selection of contemporary plays about the Holocaust, examining how collective and individual trauma is represented in dramatic texts, and considering the ways in which spectators might be swayed viscerally, intellectually, and emotionally by witnessing such representations onstage. Drawing on interviews with a number of the playwrights alongside psychoanalytic studies of survivor trauma, this volume seeks to foster understanding of the traumatic effects of the Holocaust on subsequent generations. Holocaust Theater offers a vital account of theater’s capacity to represent the effects of Holocaust trauma.

Author : Martin Kagel,David Z. Saltz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472132843

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Open Wounds by Martin Kagel,David Z. Saltz Pdf

Explores the irreverent theater of George Tabori and its enduring legacy within Holocaust theater

Author : George Eisen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014449097

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Children and Play in the Holocaust by George Eisen Pdf

My main theme deals primarily with experiences in the Holocaust, but the study offers also a certain universality, for it addresses as well the basic theorem of play under adverse circumstances, under stress, and under in-human conditions, the conditions of children in war.

Author : Mira Hirsch,Janet E. Rubin,Arnold Mittelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429881701

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Enacting History by Mira Hirsch,Janet E. Rubin,Arnold Mittelman Pdf

Enacting History is a practical guide for educators that provides methodologies and resources for teaching the Holocaust through a variety of theatrical means, including scripted texts, verbatim testimony, devised theater techniques and process-oriented creative exercises. A close collaboration with the USC Shoah Foundation I Witness program and the National Jewish Theater Foundation Holocaust Theater International Initiative at the University of Miami Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies resulted in the ground-breaking work within this volume. The material facilitates teaching the Holocaust in a way that directly connects students to individual people and historical events through the art of theater. Each section is designed to help middle and high school educators meet curricular goals, objectives and standards and to integrate other educational disciplines based upon best practices. Students will gain both intellectual and emotional understanding by speaking the words of survivors, as well as young characters in scripted scenes, and developing their own performances based on historical primary sources. This book is an innovative and invaluable resource for teachers and students of the Holocaust; it is an exemplary account of how the power of theater can be harnessed within the classroom setting to encourage a deeper understanding of this defining event in history.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781139477413

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Holocaust Drama by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Robert Skloot
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780299162733

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The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2 by Robert Skloot Pdf

This second volume of The Theatre of the Holocaust, when combined with the first, represents the most significant and comprehensive international collection of plays on the Holocaust. Since the appearance of Volume 1 in 1982, theatre and Holocaust studies have undergone astonishing transformations. In Volume 2, Skloot presents six plays acknowleding the most recent theatrical forms in our post-modern age.

Author : Peter Hayes
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393254372

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Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes Pdf

Featured in the PBS documentary, "The US and the Holocaust" by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein "Superbly written and researched, synthesizing the classics while digging deep into a vast repository of primary sources." —Josef Joffe, Wall Street Journal Why? explores one of the most tragic events in human history by addressing eight of the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust: Why the Jews? Why the Germans? Why murder? Why this swift and sweeping? Why didn’t more Jews fight back more often? Why did survival rates diverge? Why such limited help from outside? What legacies, what lessons? An internationally acclaimed scholar, Peter Hayes brings a wealth of research and experience to bear on conventional views of the Holocaust, dispelling many misconceptions and challenging some of the most prominent recent interpretations.

Author : Robert Skloot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015047436178

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The Theatre of the Holocaust by Robert Skloot Pdf

Author : Michael Taub
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815626738

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Israeli Holocaust Drama by Michael Taub Pdf

This collection brings together for the first time the dramatic responses to the Holocaust from two generations of Israel playwrights. Leah Goldberg, Aharon Megged, and Ben Zion Tomer survived the Holocaust and settled in Israel after the war. Their plays explore survival issues and the concepts of heroism and of good and evil in a candid, straightforward manner.

Author : Gene A. Plunka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521494250

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Holocaust Drama by Gene A. Plunka Pdf

The Holocaust - the systematic attempted destruction of European Jewry and other 'threats' to the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 - has been portrayed in fiction, film, memoirs, and poetry. Gene Plunka's study will add to this chronicle with an examination of the theatre of the Holocaust. Including thorough critical analyses of more than thirty plays, this book explores the seminal twentieth-century Holocaust dramas from the United States, Europe, and Israel. Biographical information about the playwrights, production histories of the plays, and pertinent historical information are provided, placing the plays in their historical and cultural contexts.

Author : Robert Skloot
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983-01-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0299090744

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The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 1 by Robert Skloot Pdf

This volume contains these four plays: Resort 76 by Shimon Wincelberg Will the relentless oppression of the starving workers in a ghetto factory destroy their faith in God? Their love of life? Their ability to resist? If a cat is more valuable than a human being, have hope and goodness been eliminated from the world? A moving and terrifying melodrama. Throne of Straw by Harold and Edith Lieberman Through the career of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Lodz, Poland Judenrat, we come to understand the horror of “choiceless choice,” of how giving up some to save others was the worst nightmare for those who sought the responsibilities of ghetto leadership. An epic play with music and song. The Cannibals by George Tabori The children of murder victims assemble to enact ritually the destruction of their fathers in the presence of two survivors. As the sons become their fathers, the most profound ethical questions of the Holocaust are raised concerning the limits of humanity in a world of absolute evil. A daring tragicomedy. Who Will Carry the Word? by Charlotte Delbo (translated by Cynthia Haft) In the austere, degraded setting of a concentration camp, twenty-two French women attempt to keep their sanity and hope as, one by one, they fall victim to the Nazi terror. Will anyone believe the story of the survivors? A poetic drama of resistance and witness.