Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Full download Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition Nurit Yaari file pdf all chapter on 2024
Full download Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition Nurit Yaari file pdf all chapter on 2024
Full download Between Jerusalem and Athens: Israeli Theatre and the Classical Tradition Nurit Yaari file pdf all chapter on 2024
https://ebookmass.com/product/wisdom-in-classical-and-biblical-
tradition-michael-c-legaspi/
https://ebookmass.com/product/liturgy-and-byzantinization-in-
jerusalem-galadza/
https://ebookmass.com/product/hayek-a-collaborative-biography-
part-xiv-liberalism-in-the-classical-tradition-orwell-popper-
humboldt-and-polanyi-1st-ed-edition-robert-leeson/
https://ebookmass.com/product/deuteronomy-28-and-the-aramaic-
curse-tradition-quick/
National and International Civilian Protection
Strategies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Timea
Spitka
https://ebookmass.com/product/national-and-international-
civilian-protection-strategies-in-the-israeli-palestinian-
conflict-timea-spitka/
https://ebookmass.com/product/between-bloode-and-wolf-paranormal-
vampire-romance-between-the-shadows-book-4-marie-harte/
https://ebookmass.com/product/the-oxford-history-of-the-archaic-
greek-world-volume-ii-athens-and-attica-robin-osborne/
https://ebookmass.com/product/epidemics-hate-and-compassion-from-
the-plague-of-athens-to-aids-samuel-kline-cohn/
https://ebookmass.com/product/the-art-of-theatre-then-and-
now-4th-edition/
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
CLASSICAL PRESENCES
General Editors
LORNA HARDWICK J A ME S I . P OR T E R
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
CLASSICAL PRESENCES
Attempts to receive the texts, images, and material culture of ancient Greece
and Rome inevitably run the risk of appropriating the past in order to
authenticate the present. Exploring the ways in which the classical past has
been mapped over the centuries allows us to trace the avowal and disavowal
of values and identities, old and new. Classical Presences brings the latest
scholarship to bear on the contexts, theory, and practice of such use, and
abuse, of the classical past.
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
Between Jerusalem
and Athens
Israeli Theatre and the Classical
Tradition
Nurit Yaari
1
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
3
Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP,
United Kingdom
Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford.
It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship,
and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of
Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries
© Nurit Yaari 2018
The moral rights of the author have been asserted
First Edition published in 2018
Impression: 1
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in
a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the
prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted
by law, by licence or under terms agreed with the appropriate reprographics
rights organization. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the
above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the
address above
You must not circulate this work in any other form
and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer
Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press
198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Data available
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018933075
ISBN 978–0–19–874667–6
Printed and bound by
CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY
Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and
for information only. Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials
contained in any third party website referenced in this work.
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
In memory of my parents
who epitomized the encounter between Athens and Jerusalem
—and conveyed its power to me
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
Previous Publications
Earlier versions of several chapters have been previously published in
various modified forms:
• Parts of Chapters 6 and 8 were published in ‘Aristophanes in Israel:
Comedy, Theatricality, Politics’, in Ancient Comedy and Reception:
Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson, ed. S. Douglas Olson (Boston:
De Gruyter, 2014), 964–83.
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
Transliterations
Israeli names are transcribed phonetically, unless the person in question
has a preferred spelling of their name in English—hence, for example,
Yitzhak, and not Isaac. The dropped final h in names such as Habima and
Lea [Goldberg] is in keeping with past conventions of transliteration.
Hebrew-Language References
To avoid excessive repetition of the qualification ‘(in Hebrew)’ at the end
of every Hebrew-language reference, all Israeli publications referenced in
the notes and Bibliography should be assumed to be in Hebrew, unless
otherwise stated.
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
Contents
List of Illustrations xv
1. Introduction 1
Between Athens and Jerusalem 3
Weaving Together Histories and Traditions 7
Israeli Theatre and Its Audiences 15
A Survey of Scholarship 17
Scope of the Study 22
Book Structure 26
2. Habima: Outsidedness as a Catalyst of Creativity 29
First Encounters with the Greek Classical Repertoire 33
In Lieu of Summary: The Nissim Aloni Effect 59
3. The Cameri: In Search of Local Theatrical Identity 63
A Modern Hebrew Theatre in Tel Aviv 63
Summary 93
4. Experimentations: Putting the Aesthetics of Performance
into Practice 97
Arieh Sachs: Experimenting with Ritual Theatre 99
Yossi Yizraely: Experimentations with Stage Imagery 110
Edna Shavit: Experiments with Classicism 129
Summary 140
5. Aristophanes and the Occupied Territories 143
Text and Socio-Political Context 145
Hanoch Levin: Contention, Defiance, and Protest 158
Summary 173
6. The Trojan War and the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict 175
Theatrical Responses to the Six Day War (1967) 175
Theatrical Responses to the Lebanon War (1982–5) 186
Summary 210
7. Lysistrata: Between Entertainment and Protest 211
Lysistrata on the Israeli Stages 211
Summary 242
8. Nissim Aloni: Oedipus Tyrannus in an Immigrant Society 245
The Myth of King Oedipus: Migrant and Autochthon 248
Summary 273
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
xiv CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
11.5 The General and the Sea created by Yonatan Levy and
Noam Enbar, The Interdisciplinary Art Arena (2015).
Pictured: Menashe Noy (The General), surrounded by
the chorus of sea waves. 389
Photograph by Keren Rozenberg.
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 5/9/2018, SPi
1
Introduction
Tragedy is not only an art form; it is also a social institution that the
city, by establishing competitions in tragedies, set up alongside its
political and legal institutions.
—Jean Pierre Vernant¹