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...
The Emperor of Atlantis
Peter Kien (libretto) and Viktor Ullman (composer).
The 1975 world premiere of “Emperor” in Amsterdam involved an infamous psychic, Rosemary Brown, who claimed Ullmann’s spirit guided her in preparing a performance edition.
See Rovit, Rebecca & Goldfarb, Alvin, Theatrical Performance During the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs (Baltimore and London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1999)
Snapshot
The Netherlands Opera presented the world premiere of the opera on December 16, 1975 at the Bellevue Centre, Amsterdam.
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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.