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Smoking Firebrands [אודים עשנים]
Author(s): Tirza Or & Yonah Rigai
Set in the 1930s, the play highlights the anti-Semitism of Fascist Italy—a story of the love of a young Jewish woman for a Christian young man who betrays her on their wedding day but who is saved by a wealthy baron who lies about her Jewish identity.
Format: Drama
Cast Size: 10M/11F
Snapshot
Original Language: Hebrew
Publisher:
Tel-Aviv: Alef
Experience(s) Chronicled: Perpetrators, Bystanders and Collaborators | Women and the Holocaust | Righteous Gentiles