Tuvia Tenenbom

Tuvia Tenenbom

Tuvia Tenenbom, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, is the Founding Artistic Director of the Jewish Theater of New York, a cutting-edge Jewish theater company and the only English-speaking Jewish theater in New York City. Tuvia's brand of theater was called the "most innovative Jewish theater in the world" by the Italian "Corriere della Sera" (on 12 January 2006), he was named "founder of a new form of Jewish theatre" by the French "Le Monde" (20 February 2002) and a "New Jew" by the Israeli "Maariv" ( [3 February 2005). The German Die Zeit (2 January 2003) described Tenenboms play "The last virgin" as "more desperately needed in Germany than suspected" [ [http://www.zeit.de/2003/02/Portr_8at_Tenenbom Flieht nicht, lacht!: Der Katastrophentheatermacher Tuvia Tenenbom Von Peter Kümmel | ZEIT online ] ] , The New York Times (October 27, 1997) called his work "irresistibly fascinating" and "bluntly satirical" (September 30, 2006] .

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