theatre of the Holocaust: Four plays
TitleThe theatre of the Holocaust: Four plays
Author
Call number809.93358/0025
Object number01626
Place of publicationMadison, Wisconsin, United States
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin Press
Year of publication
1982
Physical description333p.,select bibliography
MaterialBook
ISBN0299090744
Description
Four plays: Shimon Wincelberg's Resort 76 (based on Bryks's A Cat in the Ghetto and also published as The Windows of Heaven), Harold and Edith Lieberman's Throne of Straw (dramatizing the experience of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the leader of the Lodz Jewish Council), George Tabori's The Cannibals (on the moral question facing starving concentration camp inmates who must choose between cannibalism and death), and Charlotte Delbo's Who Will Carry the World (a poetic dramatization of life in the concentration camps), along with a fine introductory essay by Skloot