Drama and ideology in modern Israel
By: Glenda Abramson.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Israeli drama -- History and criticism; Theater -- Political aspects -- Israel; Theater and society -- Israel
Description: A large number of political plays have been written in Israel over the past fifty years, and they are perceived, by audiences and critics alike, as major interventions in the country's ongoing political debates; the result is that Israeli drama is at the centre of many public controversies.

In this first full-length study of Israeli political drama Glenda Abramson shows that during the early years of the State of Israel most of its intellectuals were identified with the 'official' interpretation of Zionism. After the Six-Day War in 1967 an influential group of playwrights, concerned with the evolution of Zionist ideology in the modern nation state, began to question the ethical basis of Zionism.

Hanokh Levin, Yehoshua Sobol, Yosef Mundi, Miriam Kainy, Amos Kenan and others have gone on to examine Zionism as it affects contemporary Israeli society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-259) and index.