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. Tenenbom was named "founder of a new form of Jewish theatre" by the French Le Monde and a "New Jew" by the Israeli Maariv. The German Die Zeit described Tenenbom's play "The last virgin" as more desperately needed in Germany than suspected;^[1] The New York Times, reviewing Tenenbom's play "Father of the Angels," called it "irresistibly fascinating;" and Corriere della Sera, reviewing Tenenbom's play "Last Jew in Europe," named Tenenbom "One of the most iconoclastic and innovative of contemporary dramatists." Tenenbom has written over sixteen plays for The Jewish Theater of New York.

Tuvia Tenenbom is also an author and a journalist, writing political essays and culture criticism in various newspapers and websites. His articles and essays have been published in media outlets such as Die Zeit of Germany, Corriere della Sera of Italy and Yedioth Ahronot of Israel. His recent book, "I Sleep in Hitler's Room," is a psychological travelogue through Germany of our time. "Tuvia Tenenbom comes off as a Jewish Hunter S Thompson," says Spengler columnist of Asia Times in his review of the book, adding: "To understand Germans, one has to learn their language and live with them – or read Tenenbom’s book." Bruce Bawer, reviewing "I Sleep in Hitler's Room" for PJMedia, writes: "It's a book in a category all its own—deeply sobering, depressing even, in its observations of the darker side of Germany, yet at the same time so chatty and engaging and laugh-out-loud funny that it's hard to put down."

References

^ Flieht nicht, lacht!: Der Katastrophentheatermacher Tuvia Tenenbom Von Peter Kümmel | ZEIT online

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