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The Yiddish Queen Lear
Author(s): Julia Pascal
Russian-born New Yorker, Esther Laranovska, gives her Yiddish theatre business to her daughters. Two of them cast her out on to the streets. She starts a new Yiddish Theatre of the Streets, which fails. In despair, she goes to France but is caught by the Nazis on the Swiss French border.
Format: Full-length play
Snapshot
Original or Prominent Production:
Southwark Playhouse, London.
Southwark Playhouse, London.
Nationality of Author: English
Original Language: English
Publisher:
Oberon Books, 2001.
Production Rights Holder:
United Agents, London.
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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.