The Judaic Nature of Israeli Theatre: A Search for Identity

The Judaic Nature of Israeli Theatre

A Search for Identity

By Dan Urian

Price: $110.00

ISBN: 978-9057550560
Binding: Hardback
Published by: Routledge
Publication Date: 28th March 2000
Pages: 156
Illustrations: 21 illustrations

About the Book

Theatre has, since the time of the Jewish Enlightenment, served the secular community in its conflict with the religious. This book surveys the secular-religious rift and then describes the enhanced concern of the secular community in Israel for its own Jewishness and its expression in the theatre - especially following the 1967 War. It then moves on to a specific study of the play Bruira and finally reviews the phenomenon of the return to Orthodox Judaism by secular individuals.