Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Babylon; Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart
Angaben zur Quelle:
15 (1995) 49-66
Keywords:
Sobol, Yehoshua.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
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Hebrew literature History and criticism
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Jews
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Theater
Abstract:
Discusses Israeli playwright Yehoshua Sobol's ghetto trilogy for the theater ("Ghetto") and the script of a projected film adaptation. Suggests that Sobol stresses the importance of remembering, and attempts to bridge between subjective personal memory and objective documentation; to show the conflict behind the decision to sacrifice the lives of some in order to save others; to describe the tension between reality and pretense - pretense as a means of survival. Three institutions, all based on deception of the Nazis, make survival possible: the underground, the hospital, and above all the theater. In giving this function to the theater, Sobol is perhaps refuting Adorno's dictum that there can be no poetry after the Holocaust, as well as Wiesel's indictment that Sobol's theater trivializes the Holocaust.
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