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Product Description:  While it is common knowledge that Jews were prominent in literature, music, cinema, and science in pre-1933 Germany, the fascinating story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre is less often discussed. Yet for a brief time, during the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic, Jewish artists and intellectuals moved away from a segregated Jewish theatre to work within canonic German theatre and performance venues, claiming the right to be part of the very fabric of German culture...read more
By Freddie Rokem (editor)

Hardcover:

9781587298684 | Univ of Iowa Pr, April 15, 2010, cover price $49.95 | About this edition:  While it is common knowledge that Jews were prominent in literature, music, cinema, and science in pre-1933 Germany, the fascinating story of Jewish co-creation of modern German theatre is less often discussed.

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Product Description: The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking at four direct encounters between philosophers and thespians, beginning with Socrates, Agathon, and Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium and ending with a discussion between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht about a short text by Franz Kafka...read more

Hardcover:

9780804763493 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 2, 2009, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry.

Paperback:

9780804763509 | Stanford Univ Pr, December 2, 2009, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry.

Collective identities grow from a sense of the past, and the theatre very forcefully participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, sometimes by contesting them and sometimes by reinforcing them. In his examination of the ways in which the theatre after World War II has presented different aspects of the French Revolution and the Holocaust, Freddie Rokem shows us that by "performing history" actors - as witnesses for the departed witnesses - bring the historical past and the theatrical present together. Rokem analyzes the significance of stage representations of the French Revolution and the Holocaust in different national contexts: the United States and Europe for performances about the French Revolution and Israel for performances about the Holocaust. By pointing out both the great diversity and the common features of these performances, he draws attention to the complex collective efforts and the creativity of playwrights, directors, designers and actors as they connect their theatrical energies to a specific historical past. He also focuses on the ways in which audiences in different cultures have been affected by and even had an influence on the ideological debates embedded in these performances. Rokem looks at plays and performances by Yehoshua Sobol, Dudu Ma'ayan and Hanoch Levin in Israel; Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkin and Ingmar Bergman in Europe; and Orson Welles, Herbert Blau and Robert Wilson in the United States. Drawing upon these and upon his own life in Europe, Israel and the United States, Rokem makes us aware of the critical interaction between the failures of history and the efforts to create viable and meaningful works of art.

Hardcover:

9780877457374 | Univ of Iowa Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Collective identities grow from a sense of the past, and the theatre very forcefully participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, sometimes by contesting them and sometimes by reinforcing them.

Paperback:

9781587295881 | Univ of Iowa Pr, March 15, 2007, cover price $24.95

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Product Description: The works of the great Swedish playwright August Strindberg are enigmatic, taking the form of riddles that constantly ask readers, directors, actors, and spectators to find new and creative solutions. Focusing on all the major plays and the chamber plays, Rokem explores their unconscious processes and compares Strindberg's work with that of Ibsen and Freud...read more

Paperback:

9781870041553 | Norvik Pr, May 20, 2005, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: The works of the great Swedish playwright August Strindberg are enigmatic, taking the form of riddles that constantly ask readers, directors, actors, and spectators to find new and creative solutions.

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By Barbara Harshav (trans), Hanoch Levin and Freddie Rokem (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780804737128 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 18, 2003, cover price $15.00

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