Ruthie Abeliovich, 10 October 2023
What can old Yiddish prompting notebooks, popular theatre ephemera and sound recordings teach us about our culture? The Yiddish theatre was a popular cultural arena for Jews in Europe and the US at the turn of the 20th century.
Tel Aviv University
Ruthie Abeliovich is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts, at Tel Aviv University. She teaches courses related to performance theory and theatre history. Her research focuses on audio-visual aesthetics in 20th-century theatre, and Jewish theatre in its multilingual contexts.
She is co-editor (with Linda Ben-Zvi and Sharon Aronson Lehavi) of A Stage of Their Own: 7 American Feminist Plays (Hebrew), co-editor (with Edwin Seroussi) of Borderlines: Essays on Maps and The Logic of Place (De Gruyter, 2019), and author of Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theatre (SUNY Press 2019), a study of the cultural memory entombed in the sounds of the Israeli radio theatre and radio drama.
Ruthie Abeliovich was a Visiting Fellow at CAS in April 2022 upon invitation of Prof. Dr. Berenika Szymanski-Düll (CAS Young Center).