A Message from Arnold Mittelman After a career in not-for-profit and commercial theater spanning more than 40 years I was honored in 2007 to found the National Jewish Theater / Foundation and in 2010 to assume leadership of its Holocaust Theater International...
The Sound of Music
Novice nun Maria is sent to be the governess of the Von Trapp children.
Format: Musical
Notes:
Music by Richard Rodgers; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; book by Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse.
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, November 16, 1959.
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, November 16, 1959.
Original Source Material: Based on The Trapp Family Singers by Maria Augusta Trapp.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
Production Rights Holder:
Experience(s) Chronicled: Germany, Hitler and the Growth of Nazism
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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.
Many Questions and a Few Answers
by Robert Skloot 2022 NJTF HTII Lifetime Achievement Award AHO Winter Conference, Miami, FL I’d like to begin my remarks by asking the question that all of us have been asked often: “Why do you do the work you do?” There are, of course, many answers, but I’d imagine...