Discipline: Social
Sciences
Topic: Sociology
The Ethnic Problem in Israeli Theatre
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Dan Urian
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The repertoire of Israeli theatre (including mainstream
and ‘fringe’ theatre, Hebrew and Arabic-speaking theatre, etc.) suggests
processes of democratization that have taken place in Israeli culture since
the Yishuv period and up to the 21st
century. The repertoire reflects changes in the arts and the media as they
represent the various groups that comprise Israeli society. This book deals
with texts and parts of plays in which playwrights and their audiences deal
with the “other”, especially with mizrachim
(Jews of North African or Asian origin), with Israeli-Arabs, and with
religious sectors.
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Through plays it illustrates these three major
rifts in Israeli society and the changes that have taken place in the
relations between the groups in the last hundred years. Special emphasis is
on changes which seem (at least on stage) to be processes of
democratization, and which reflect changes in the position of these groups
on the political and social scenes.
Forthcoming, cat. # 12027
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Professor Dan Urian,
of the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel-Aviv University, is author or
co-author of seven books including Palestinians and Israelis in the
Theatre (Routledge, 1996); The Arab in
Israeli Drama and Theatre (Routledge Harwood
Contemporary Theatre Studies, 1997) and In Search of Identity: Jewish
Aspects in Israeli Culture (Frank Cass & Co, 1998).
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