Meir Ezofowicz, czyli Żydzi
Meir Ezofowicz, or: The Jews

Summary/Abstract: Joanna Krakowska’s article is an expanded version of her lecture from the People’s Republic: Presentations series, which inaugurated a multimedia project of a new history of Polish theater from 1765 to the present, realized at the Theater Institute in Warsaw. Krakowska provides a wide-angle view of the history of the play Meir Ezofowicz directed by Ida Kamińska. Departing from the popularity of and lively response to the play, Krakowska analyzes the director's work in detail, and gives an overview of the history of the Jewish Theater in which it was presented. She then steps back to analyze how this theater took shape in the reports of the People’s Republic authorities, and how the plays it produced took issue with the imposed or ignored narratives concerning Jews following the war.

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