Israeli Holocaust Drama

by Michael Taub

Overview

This first English anthology of Israeli Holocaust drama makes available five important Israeli dramatic works, focusing on the more controversial productions of the last two decades.

Although it once relied on a repertoire drawn largely from other countries, the fledgling Israeli stage is coming into its own, and a hearty generation of native writers makes this volume a welcome tradition to what has been a dearth of contemporary Hebrew drama available in English.

This collection brings together for the first time the dramatic responses to the Holocaust from two generations of Israeli playwrights. Leah Goldberg, Aharon Megged, and Ben Zion Tomer were born in Eastern Europe and settled in British Palestine before World War II.

Joshua Sobol and Motti Lerner were born in British Palestine and Israel respectively. Written some forty years after the events, their plays question the conventional notion of heroism, of good and evil, and the more ambiguous moral issues of collaboration and the failure to resist.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815626749
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	07/30/1999
Series:	Television Series
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	456
Sales rank:	968,989
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.07(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michael Taub is professor of Liberal Studies at Purchase College, SUNY. He is the editor of Modern Israeli Drama and of An Anthology of Israeli Drama for the New Millennium, and the author of Films about Jewish Life and Culture.

Editorial Reviews

Taub attributes younger writers' efforts 'to revise our thinking about collaboration and heroism' to three recent wars and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.-- "Choice"

From the Publisher