The Judaic Nature of Israeli Theatre

A Search for Identity

• Author(s): Dan Urian,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 156
• ISBN_10: 1134425902
  ISBN_13: 9781134425907
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Performing Arts / General , Performing Arts / Theater / General , Art / General , Social Science / Regional Studies , Religion / General ,

Description:... 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.