Reference Books

The Jewish Kulterbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

Rebecca Rovit, University of Iowa Press, 2012

Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism and the Holocaust (Unnatural Acts: Theorizing the Performative)

Vivian Patraka, Indiana University Press, 1999

Open Wounds: Holocaust Theater and the Legacy of George Tabori

Martin Kagel, David Z. Saltz, University of Michigan Press, 2022

Enacting History: A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater

Mira Hirsch, Janet E. Rubin, Arnold Mittelman, Routledge, 2020

Plays of the Holocaust: An International Anthology

Elinor Fuchs, Theatre Communications Group; First Edition edition, 1993

Stages of Annihilation: Theatrical Representations of the Holocaust

Edward R. Isser, Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997

Spectacular Suffering: Theatre, Fascism, and the Holocaust

Vivan M. Patraka, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999

Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto

Lisa Peschel with a Preface by Ivan Klíma Seagull Books

Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity

Gene A. Plunka, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Staging Holocaust Resistance

Gene A. Plunka, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

Revering the Nazis and Blaming the Victims: Three Enigmatic Holocaust Plays

Gene A. Plunka, Holocaust Studies 18, no. 1 (2012): 61-84.

The Jewish Kulturbund Theatre Company in Nazi Berlin

Rebecca Rovit, University Iowa Press, 2013

Theatrical Performance during the Holocaust: Texts, Documents, Memoirs

Rebecca Rovit & Alvin Goldfarb, The Johns Hopkins University Press edition, 1999

Staging the Holocaust: The Shoah in Drama and Performance

Claude Schumacher, ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998

The Darkness We Carry: The Drama of the Holocaust

Robert Skloot, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998

A Multiplicity of Annes

Robert Skloot, ASSAPH: STUDIES IN THEATRE, v. 22-23 (Tel Aviv, 2009), 196-198

The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 1: Four Plays

Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983

The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2: Six Plays

Robert Skloot, University of Wisconsin Press, 1999

Israeli Holocaust Drama

Michael Taub, ed., Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1996

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A Personal Welcome to the Holocaust Theater Catalog

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...

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.