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Goldberg’s Kaddish
Author(s): Michael F. Ackerman
The central character is David Goldberg who is imprisoned in West Berlin in 1961, waiting to be tried for the murder of Erich Mauler, a former SS Officer and a prominent public figure in postwar Germany. While the play uses ironic comedy, the audience eventually learns, through flashbacks, of Goldberg's personal motives: his wife is a survivor who suffered intense brutality at the hands of the former Nazi and his colleagues.
Format: Drama
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Original or Prominent Production:
Edinburgh Festival, 1995
Edinburgh Festival, 1995
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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