On Guilt and Ghosts

• Authors: Abeliovich Ruthie

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On Guilt and Ghosts

Abstracts

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This paper reviews Grzegorz Niziołek thought-provoking book The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust (London: Methuen Drama Press, 2019), and the key questions and issues it addresses. Focusing on Polish perspectives, theatrical representations and performative reactions to the extermination of the Jews during WWII, the book analyzes six decades of theatrical creation. Within this scheme, the victims and perpetrators are casted in the role of actors, while the Polish people are allotted the role of passive spectators, witnesses to the atrocity. This review sheds light on the ethical and aesthetical implications of Niziołek’s study, by attending to the material aspects of the catastrophe, and its theatrical representations. It seeks to recuperate and integrate the Jewish perspective into the theatrical analysis.

Keywords

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Polish theater after 1945; Holocaust;; Shoah; Dybbuk; Szymon An-sky

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Pamiętnik Teatralny
• Year: 2020
• Issue: 4(276)
• Pages: 161-170

Contributors

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Abeliovich Ruthie

• University of Haifa

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DOI

10.36744/pt.567