Drama and Ideology in Modern Israel

Glenda Abramson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th Sep '98

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An examination of political drama in modern Israel in relation to ongoing political and religious debates.

Many political plays have been written in Israel over the past fifty years, contributing to public debate on topics including the ethical basis of Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Holocaust. Glenda Abramson offers the first full-length study of Israeli political drama and its impact on the state.A large number of political plays have been written in Israel over the past fifty years, and they are perceived, by audiences and critics alike, as major interventions in the country's ongoing political debates; the result is that Israeli drama is at the centre of many public controversies. In this first full-length study of Israeli political drama Glenda Abramson shows that during the early years of the State of Israel most of its intellectuals were identified with the 'official' state interpretation of Zionism. After the Six-Day War in 1967 an influential group of playwrights, concerned with the evolution of Zionist ideology in the modern nation state, began to question the ethical basis of Zionism. Hanokh Levin, Yehoshua Sobol, Yosef Mundi, Miriam Kainy, Amos Kenan and others have gone on to examine Zionism as it affects contemporary Israeli society.

'Glenda Abramson's fascinating book traces Israel's history through its theatre … [it] is an important and well-written book, a 50-year-long history of a country as seen through the eyes of its playwrights and audiences. You hardly need anything else.' Jewish Chronicle

ISBN: 9780521441599

Dimensions: 236mm x 159mm x 23mm

Weight: 570g

276 pages