Representing the Holocaust: Leah Goldberg's Play 'Lady of the Palace' Between German and Hebrew

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 - 5:00pm

Giddon Ticotsky

Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Claudia Cohen Hall, Room 402, 249 South 36th Street, University of Pennsylvania

Giddon Ticotsky, a Ruth Meltzer Fellow at Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, will talk on the first Hebrew theater piece dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust.

Leah Goldberg (1911-1970) is one of Israel's most prominent authors. Her play The Lady of the Palace (1955) was the first Hebrew theater piece dealing with the horrors of the Holocaust, only a decade after the end of World War II. This talk will focus on the various transitions embedded in the play — from poetry to drama, from Jewish to universal aspects, and especially from Hebrew to German and European motifs — as a key to reread this piece. By that the talk will also shed light on the challenges of representing atrocities in the arts.

 

Giddon Ticotsky, a 2016 Ruth Meltzer Fellow at Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, was formerly a lecturer at Stanford's Department of Comparative Literature. He authored three books in Hebrew: Dahlia Ravikovitch – In Life and Literature (forthcoming); Light along the Edge of a Cloud: Introduction to Leah Goldberg’s Oeuvre (2011) and The Little Prince: Seven Essays on ‘The Little Prince’ in light of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Oeuvre (1998). 

 

Sponsored by Penn’s Jewish Studies Program and the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies.

 

Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.
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