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The Flame Keeper
Author(s): Amos Kamil
A two-person play based on Kamil’s maternal grandfather Julius Reiter. The Flame Keeper chronicles the tense relationship between a non-Jewish cigar shop owner and Jewish professor returning to his native Berlin in the aftermath of WW II. The play has been translated into Hebrew, French, Italian, and German.
Format: Full-length, one-act play
Cast Size:2M
Running Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Character breakdown:
Dr. Julius Reiter, Jewish professor
Ernst Gruber, cigar shop owner
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Original or Prominent Production:
In 2000, the play ran off-Broadway for five and half months at the 47th St. Theatre, and has been performed regionally and internationally.
In 2000, the play ran off-Broadway for five and half months at the 47th St. Theatre, and has been performed regionally and internationally.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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Experience(s) Chronicled: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Survivors and Subsequent Generations | Other Victims of Nazi Persecution
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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.