The First International Conference and Festival of Jewish Theater will convene July 3-9 in Israel on the campus of Tel Aviv University. Performing groups from ten countries including the U.S., Israel, East and West Germany, Norway, England, France and Canada will offer an exciting array of theater based on Jewish themes. This was announced here by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.
American sponsors for the Festival include The National Foundation, the Kinneret Foundation in Washington, D.C., and the Emet Foundation in Los Angeles.
Participants from this country will include Joseph Papp, producer of the New York Shakespeare Festival; Herschel Bernardi, Elizabeth Swados, Joseph Chaikin and Nobel Prize winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University, according to the National Foundation.
The festival program will also include workshops and seminars dealing with issues such as traditional storytelling, the theater of the Holocaust, and the exploration of theatrical elements in Jewish mysticism.
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