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Jewish Theatre - Texts through the Body

Date: Monday, February 8, 2010

Febr 8-12
Yair Lipshitz

Yair Lipshitz is currently completing his PhD at the Department for Theatre Arts in Tel Aviv University, writing on the body as a hermeneutical site for Jewish textual culture in theatre and drama. He is a Junior Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, as well a lecturer at Department for Theatre Arts in Tel Aviv University and at Alma College for Hebrew Culture in Tel Aviv. His book, The Holy Tongue, Comedy's Version: Intertextual Dramas on the Stage of "A Comedy of Betrothal," is forthcoming from Bar-Ilan University Press, as part of the “Hermeneutics and Culture” series. He has also published papers on theatre as Midrash, Renaissance Italian-Jewish theatre, early 20th century Jewish theatre and drama, and the body in Rabbi nic literature. Lipshitz is also a published playwright, working with Jewish cultural sources in his drama. His play, A Moment of Relief, was included in the Hebrew anthology New Voices in Israeli Drama (2006).

Course Description
The course will explore the manner by which theatre participates in Jewish textual culture. Being an art-medium which many times combines text with non-textual elements, such as body, space and clothes – the theatre allows for material, corporeal and spatial interpretations of Jewish texts. These interpretations are indeed many times subversive and challenging to tradition – emphasizing as they are the playful, erotic and embodied dimensions of Jewish culture.

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