Tuvia Tenenbom

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Tuvia Tenenbom, born in Tel Aviv, Israel is the Founding Artistic Director of the venerated Jewish Theater of New York, a cutting-edge Jewish theater company and the only English-speaking Jewish theater in New York. Tuvia's brand of theater was called the "most innovative Jewish theater in the world" by the Italian Corriere della Sera (on 12 of Jan. 2006), he was named "founder of a new form of Jewish theatre" by the French Le Monde (20 Feb. 2002) and a "New Jew" by the Israeli Maariv (23 Feb. 2005). The German Die Zeit (2 Jan. 2003) named Tuvia "the best mind in America" (together with Prof. Harold Bloom) and The New York Times (Oct. 27 1997) called his work "irresistibly fascinating" and "bluntly satirical" (Sep. 30 2006).