A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
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Author(s): Cynthia Ozick
Based on two short stories, The Shawl and Rosa, focuses on Rosa Lublin and her niece Stella. Both women survived the same concentration camp and now live in Miami. Rosa is haunted by her Holocaust experiences and by Magda, the daughter she tried to hide in the camp under a shawl but who was eventually discovered and killed. Stella, resented by Rose for surviving while her daughter did not, wants to deny her Holocaust past and experiences.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:3M/3F
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
1994
1994
Original Source Material: Based on Ozick’s two pieces of fiction, The Shawl and Rosa.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Experience(s) Chronicled: Concentration and Extermination Camps | Survivors and Subsequent Generations
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Lifetime Achievement Award
On September 30, 2024, French playwright, Mr. Jean Claude Grumberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award. It was presented by NJTF HTII President, Arnold Mittelman with Dominique Trimbur, PhD-Manager for the History of Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, Teaching of the Holocaust of Fondation Pour La Memoir de la Shoah Project.
Many Questions and a Few Answers
by Robert Skloot 2022 NJTF HTII Lifetime Achievement Award AHO Winter Conference, Miami, FL I’d like to begin my remarks by asking the question that all of us have been asked often: “Why do you do the work you do?” There are, of course, many answers, but I’d imagine...