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...
Steamship Quanza
Darcy Abrams: Late 30s. A lawyer. Ben’s wife. Raised in Virginia, granddaughter of German JewsDavid Abrams: 15. Ben and Darcy’s son.Gerhardt Wolff: Mid-50s. Prosperous German Jew.
Anna Wolff: Late teens. Gerhardt’s daughter.
Ida Lipschultz: Late 20s. Polish Jew from small village./JULIA MILLSTEIN: Mid-30s. Darcy Abrams’ sister-in-law.
Helman Levy: Early 30s. Hungarian Jewish musician/RAY GIBBON Late 30s. Garage owner in Hampton Roads.
Patrick Malin: Late 20s. Official of the President’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees./Tom McPherson: Early 30s. A dockworker in Virginia.
See Gene A. Plunka Staging Holocaust Resistance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, pp. 135–154.
Snapshot
Chicago Dramatists Workshop, 1991
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Susan Lieberman & Stephen J Morewitz
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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.