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Dybbuk: Between Theatre and Ethnography - 20549 | Diego Rotman

Dybbuk: Between Theatre and Ethnography - 20549

In the course we'll deal with the phenomena of the Dybbuk in the Jewish tradition and in Hebrew and Yiddish theater. According to the Jewish tradition the dybbuk is the spirit of a dead person who takes over a living body and speaks from his or her throat with his or her own voice. In the frame of the course we'll deal with stories about possession and dybbuks in the Jewish tradition, about S. An-sky ethnography expedition to Volhynia, Podolia and Kiev (1912-1914), and we’ll examine how the folklore about dybbuks was turned into one of the most important theater pieces in the history of the Hebrew and Yiddish theater.
We'll work in the frame of the seminar on a research performative project to be presented to the public which will include short performative pieces, talks, readings, created or written by the students).