Gorodish (Hillel Mitelpunkt)
Posts Tagged: History
Oil City (Hillel Mitelpunkt)
Genre: Drama
The Mountain Does Not Move (Gilad Evron)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play , Periodical Drama
The king of Jerusalem (Gilad Evron)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play , Periodical Drama
Kastner (Motti Lerner)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play
A political/historical drama about the tragic negotiations conducted by the Jewish community in Hungary during World War II with Adolph Eichmann, head of the Gestapo unit 4-B on rescuing the remains of European Jewry. Winner of “Play of The Year” award (1985) The play was published in English in the anthology “Israeli Holocaust Drama” edited by… Read more
A Momentary Kingdom (Motti Lerner)
Genre: Drama , Poetic Drama
“Momentary Kingdom” is a play about the life in exile of the German-Jewish poet Heinrich Heine. From the time he began writing he was persecuted by the King of Prussia for his criticism of the Prussian regime. In 1831 he was forced to flee Germany and find refuge in Paris. The King of Prussia continued… Read more
Paulus (Motti Lerner)
Genre: Drama , Periodical Drama
The surrealistic tragedy of St. Paul the Apostle (6AD – 67AD), an Ultra Orthodox Jew, employed at the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, who tried to repair the world by creating a Universalist religion based on Jesus’ idea of redemption, and found himself forced to separate from Judaism and to establish a new religion – Christianity…. Read more
Free People (Inna Eizenberg)
Genre: Fantasy
My Book of Faces (Inna Eizenberg)
Genre: Comic Drama
Will the Two Walk Together (A. B. Yehoshua)
Genre: Drama , Historical Play , Periodical Drama
In 1934 a series of secret meetings was held in London between two bitter adversaries in the Zionist movement: from the Left, David Ben-Gurion, and from the Right, Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the revered Revisionist movement leader. The aim of the meetings was reconciliation between the two rival movements, preventing the secession of Jabotinsky’s movement from the… Read more