The Heir [היורש]

Author(s): Moshe Shamir
An Israeli steals the identity of a Jew murdered during the Holocaust as a means of illegally claiming reparation payments from the post-war German government. The play was controversial because of the questions it raised about the issue of reparations, which the Germans called "weidergutmachen" ("to make well again").
Format: Comical drama

Snapshot

Original or Prominent Production:
Haifa Municipal Theater, 1963
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew
Publisher:

Or Am

Production Rights Holder:

In Teatron, 1963

Experience(s) Chronicled: Survivors and Subsequent Generations

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