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DelikateSSen
Author(s): Richard Atkins
In New York City, circa 1972, two Jewish brothers are facing hard times running their famous Jewish delicatessen. The brothers fear business will get even tougher with the new competition: a German is opening up his own deli across the street. The past continues to haunt one man’s soul so profoundly he is faced with immeasurable choices no man would want to make.
Format: Drama
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Vortex Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 28, 2013. World premiere workshop production at the Adobe Theatre, Albuquerque, April 2016. Multiple staged readings in Chicago, Albuquerque, and Las Cruces, 2015–2017. Production at the Performing Arts Center, Rhinebeck, New York, January 2019.
Vortex Theatre, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 28, 2013. World premiere workshop production at the Adobe Theatre, Albuquerque, April 2016. Multiple staged readings in Chicago, Albuquerque, and Las Cruces, 2015–2017. Production at the Performing Arts Center, Rhinebeck, New York, January 2019.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
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.