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Year:
2015
Catalog number :
45-005722
ISBN:
978-965-493-845-7
Pages:
292
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Habima in Berlin

The Institutionalization of a Zionist Theatre

Synopsis
The book Habima in Berlin delineates the net of interconnections between Habima, a Hebrew theater troupe, and the German Jewish cultural and economical elite, that were woven together in the years 1926-1931. It analyzes how Berlin Jews, among them renowned theater artists, Zionist activists, intellectuals, wealthy businessmen, industrialists and bankers, formed a coalition to support Habima and how they shaped its Hebrew-Zionist artistic profile.
Reviews

"Rather than focusing on the company’s theatrical productions, Zer-Zion takes a more historical approach, charting the brutal end of German–Jewish dialogue in the early 1930s, the relocation of Habima to Palestine, and its role as a refuge for German Jewish actors and creators who fled Germany." Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Na'ama Sheffi, May 2018

"Habima in Berlin ends with an elaborate multi lingual (Hebrew, Yiddish, English, German, Russian) List of Sources. Photos dispersed throughout the book lend a personal quality to the work. Habima in Berlin is a research-reference book that should be in any academic library, especially in theater departments." - AJL, by Nira Wolfe, September 2016

Theatre, by Gad Kenar (Kissinger), August 2016 
Ha'aretz, by Yair Lipshwitz, May 2016