Monday, October 1, 2007

Bring Yosef Bar-Yosef to the United States

Born in 1933 in Jerusalem, seventh generation in Israel, to an Orthodox family, he received a Jewish Orthodox education as a child.

He later went on to study Jewish philosophy, Kabalah and English Literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He worked as a seaman, builder, and eventually mainly as Journalist and Literary Editor. His first play ‘Tura’, was staged at the Cameri Theatre in Tel-Aviv in 1963. Since then eleven plays of his have been produced by the major theatres in Israel, mainly by Habima - Tel Aviv's main stage. He won the President Shazar prize for drama for his play “Difficult People”. In 2003, he was awarded the most prestigeous Prize of Israel for his entire dramatic body of work.
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Mir Productions, a New York-based theater company is currently working with the Israeli consulate to bring Mr. Bar-Yosef, one of Israel's most respected playwrights, to the United States for a reading tour of universities along the east coast during the first two weeks of April 2008.

Please join and help make the tour a success and expose his work to new audiences across America.

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If you are a student or faculty member at a college on the east coast and you're interested in hosting this event (Middle/Near Eastern Studies, Literature and Theater Departments especially encouraged), please contact me at joycew@gmail.com
Also, please feel free to join our Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5303163812

Best,

Joyce Wu

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