Staging Holocaust Resistance

Staging Holocaust Resistance

Author: Gene A. Plunka

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-04-24

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1137000619

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Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative drama study examines a variety of international plays - some quite well-known, others more obscure - that focus on collective or individual defiance of the Nazis.


Hope and Honor

Hope and Honor

Author: Rachel L. Einwohner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190079436

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Preface --Timeline of Important Events -- Studying Jewish Resistance -- Understanding Resistance: Theoretical Underpinnings -- Fighting for Honor in the Warsaw Ghetto -- Competing Visions in the Vilna Ghetto -- Hope and Hunger in the Łódź Ghetto -- Resistance: Past, Present, and Future -- Appendix: Data Sources.


Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine

Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine

Author: Inez Hedges

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 3030840093

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This book is a contribution to the emerging field of research-based performance, which seeks to gain a wider audience for issues that are crucial to our understanding of history and to informing our future actions. The book examines the role of theater in portraying the Shoah in France, the French Resistance, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Each of the three chapters consists of an original dramatic work by the author and an accompanying critical essay.


Perpetrators Victims Bystanders

Perpetrators Victims Bystanders

Author: Raul Hilberg

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 0060995076

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The man the New York Times has called "the preeminent scholar of the Holocaust" tells the stories of those who caused, experienced, and witnessed the great human catastrophe.


Staging the Holocaust

Staging the Holocaust

Author: Claude Schumacher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-09-24

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780521624152

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'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.


Holocaust Drama

Holocaust Drama

Author: Gene A. Plunka

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-02

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1139477412

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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.


The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture

The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture

Author: Samantha Baskind

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0271081481

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On the eve of Passover, April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto staged a now legendary revolt against their Nazi oppressors. Since that day, the deprivation and despair of life in the ghetto and the dramatic uprising of its inhabitants have captured the American cultural imagination. The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture looks at how this place and its story have been remembered in fine art, film, television, radio, theater, fiction, poetry, and comics. Samantha Baskind explores seventy years’ worth of artistic representations of the ghetto and revolt to understand why they became and remain touchstones in the American mind. Her study includes iconic works such as Leon Uris’s best-selling novel Mila 18, Roman Polanski’s Academy Award–winning film The Pianist, and Rod Serling’s teleplay In the Presence of Mine Enemies, as well as accounts in the American Jewish Yearbook and the New York Times, the art of Samuel Bak and Arthur Szyk, and the poetry of Yala Korwin and Charles Reznikoff. In probing these works, Baskind pursues key questions of Jewish identity: What links artistic representations of the ghetto to the Jewish diaspora? How is art politicized or depoliticized? Why have Americans made such a strong cultural claim on the uprising? Vibrantly illustrated and vividly told, The Warsaw Ghetto in American Art and Culture shows the importance of the ghetto as a site of memory and creative struggle and reveals how this seminal event and locale served as a staging ground for the forging of Jewish American identity.


Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage

Staging the Slums, Slumming the Stage

Author: J. Westgate

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 1137357681

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Drawing on traditional archival research, reception theory, cultural histories of slumming, and recent work in critical theory on literary representations of poverty, Westgate argues that the productions of slum plays served as enactments of the emergent definitions of the slum and the corresponding ethical obligations involved therein.