In his examination of the ways in which theatre participates in the ongoing representations of and debates about the past, freddie rokem. It focuses, instead, on dramatic forms of human reflection and expression. Nowhere are the myriad processes of perfonning history more fully examined than in freddie rokem s recent book of that name. Jews and the making of modern german theatre studies theatre. He is professor emeritus in the department of theatre at tel aviv university, where he was the dean of the faculty of the arts 20022006 and. Freddie rokem tel aviv university israel email protected freddie rokem holds the emanuel herzikowitz chair for 19th and 20th century art and is professor emeritus from the department of theatre at tel aviv university, where he served as the dean of the yolanda and. In this engaging new consideration of the relationship between history and theatre, freddie rokem uses the brilliant strategy of analyzing a series of theatrical attempts to treat that historical event that many have characterized as beyond artistic representation, the shoah, alongside a series that have treated that event which from the beginning was conceived in theatrical terms, the french revolution. In his examination of the ways in which the theatre after world war ii has presented different aspects of the french revolution and the holocaust, freddie rokem shows us that by performing history actorsas witnesses for the departed witnessesbring the historical past and the theatrical present together.
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