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Informationen zum Autor Rebecca Rovit is an assistant professor of theatre at the University of Kansas. Author of numerous articles on theatre and performance in such journals as American Theatre, PAJ , TDR , Theatre Survey , Contemporary Theatre Review , The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies , and The Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur , edited by Dan Diner, she is the coeditor of Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs , a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Klappentext New laws enacted in the wake of Hitler's ascent to power removed all Jews from their professional workplaces and banned Jewish artists from any collaboration with their fellow citizens. In the summer of 1933, Goebbels's Prussian Theatre Commission approved an all-Jewish theatre as part of the Kulturbund Deutscher Juden, the Cultural Association of German Jewry. This network of Jewish cultural leagues and theatre ensembles across Germany coexisted with Nazi policies against Jews until the Gestapo dissolved the theatre in 1941. Revealing the complex interplay between history and human lives under conditions of duress, Rebecca Rovit focuses on the eight-year odyssey of the Berlin Kulturbund and its theatre. Zusammenfassung By examining why and how an all-Jewish repertory theatre could coexist with the Nazi regime! Rovit raises broader questions about the nature of art in an environment of coercion and isolation! artistic integrity and adaptability! and community and identity.
