Physical Description
xvi, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Holocaust theatre and the problem of justice / Robert Skloot
The power and limits of the metaphor of survivors' testimony / Hank Greenspan
On the fantastic in Holocaust performances / Freddie Rokem
The Holocaust experience through theatrical profanation / Gad Kaynar
Ben Hecht's pageant-drama : A flag is born / Atay Citron
Theatrical interpretation of the Shoah : image and counter-image / Dan Laor
Inadequate memories : the survivor in plays by Mann, Kesselman, Lebow, and Baitz / Alvin Goldfarb
Performing a Holocaust play in Warsaw in 1963 / Seth Wolitz
Reality and illusion in the Theresienstadt cabaret / Roy Kift
Liliane Atlan's Un opéra pour Terezin / Yehuda Moraly
History, utopia and the concentration camp in Gatti's early plays / John Ireland
Armand Gatti and the silence of the 1059 days of Auschwitz / Dorothy Knowles
Charlotte Delbo : theatre as a means of survival / Claude Schumacher
Primo Levi's stage version of Se questo è un uomo / Helga Finter
Heinar Kipphardt's Brother Eichmann / Alexander Stillmark
George Tabori's mourning work in Jubiläum / Anat Feinberg
Thomas Bernhard, Jews, Heldenplatz / Jeanette R. Malkin
Select bibliography of Holocaust plays, 1933-1997 / Alvin Goldfarb.
Other Authors/Editors
Schumacher, Claude.
ISBN
0521624150
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-349) and index.
Holocaust theatre and the problem of justice / Robert Skloot -- The power and limits of the metaphor of survivors' testimony / Hank Greenspan -- On the fantastic in Holocaust performances / Freddie Rokem -- The Holocaust experience through theatrical profanation / Gad Kaynar -- Ben Hecht's pageant-drama : A flag is born / Atay Citron -- Theatrical interpretation of the Shoah : image and counter-image / Dan Laor -- Inadequate memories : the survivor in plays by Mann, Kesselman, Lebow, and Baitz / Alvin Goldfarb -- Performing a Holocaust play in Warsaw in 1963 / Seth Wolitz -- Reality and illusion in the Theresienstadt cabaret / Roy Kift -- Liliane Atlan's Un opéra pour Terezin / Yehuda Moraly -- History, utopia and the concentration camp in Gatti's early plays / John Ireland -- Armand Gatti and the silence of the 1059 days of Auschwitz / Dorothy Knowles -- Charlotte Delbo : theatre as a means of survival / Claude Schumacher -- Primo Levi's stage version of Se questo è un uomo / Helga Finter -- Heinar Kipphardt's Brother Eichmann / Alexander Stillmark -- George Tabori's mourning work in Jubiläum / Anat Feinberg -- Thomas Bernhard, Jews, Heldenplatz / Jeanette R. Malkin -- Select bibliography of Holocaust plays, 1933-1997 / Alvin Goldfarb.
