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I’m Speaking to You in Chinese (It’s All Greek to Me) [סינית אני מדברת אלייך]
Author(s): Savyon Liebrecht
Miri is a director and a mother of three, who returns to her childhood home so she can straighten things up in order to sell it. Walking down memory lane, she returns to her past and family. She deals yet again with her Holocaust surviving parents and a secret romance between her aunt and her father. A mysterious real estate agent helps her get over it all, make peace with her past, and find love.
Format: Drama
Cast Size:4F/2M
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Bet Lesin, 2005
Bet Lesin, 2005
Original Source Material: A book by Savyon Liebrecht , published in 1992. The play was published in 2012.
Nationality of Author: Israeli
Original Language: Hebrew
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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.