Michael C. Steinlauf - OPeRe

About
Michael C. Steinlauf teaches Jewish history and culture and directs the Holocaust Studies program at Gratz College near Philadelphia. He is theater editor of the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (Yale University Press, 2008), and the editor, with Antony Polonsky, of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, v. 16 (2003), focusing on Jewish popular culture in Poland and its contemporary afterlife. He is the author of Bondage to the Dead: Poland and the Memory of the Holocaust (Syracuse University Press, 1997), which examines how the experience of witnessing the Holocaust shaped Polish history and consciousness in the half-century after the war.
Professional activities
research, lecturing
Areas of interest
Jewish history, theatre
Working languages
English, Polish, Yiddish

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Melrose Park
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Article

Poland's Dybbuks: A response to the Warlikowski dialogues

by Michael C. Steinlauf

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
Keywords

Polish theatre Krzysztof Warlikowski Nowy Teatr TR Warszawa Jacek Poniedziałek Andrzej Chyra Piotr Gruszczyński Jedwabne S. Ansky Hanna Krall The Dybbuk Polish Jewish culture Yiddish theatre interwar Poland Polish identity LGBT culture Second World War Andrzej Wajda Warsaw exclusion Mark Arnshteyn Joanna Tokarska-Bakir Agnieszka Graff Avishai Hadari Polish press

Journal

Polish Theatre Perspectives 1

Edited by Duncan Jamieson and Adela Karsznia

Publishing series
Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)
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Tadeusz Kantor Polish theatre cross-cultural directing memory Krzysztof Warlikowski Nowy Teatr TR Warszawa Jacek Poniedziałek Magdalena Cielecka Piotr Gruszczyński Krystian Lupa ensemble acting William Shakespeare Jedwabne Jan T. Gross Hanna Krall Polish Jewish culture Polish identity Second World War Greek tragedy Jan Klata migration Andrzej Wajda film Germany Russia Anatoli Vassiliev documentation exclusion minority identities

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Connections

Duncan Jamieson

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

Working languages
English, Spanish, French, Polish, Polish (sign), Italian
Professional activities
research, editing, publishing, translating, directing, web development
Areas of interest
theatre & performance studies, cross-cultural performance, ethics, acting, directing, rehearsal practices, performer training, psychophysical performance, practice research, cultural translation, cognitive studies, decision making, gender studies, theatre history, historiography, contemporary philosophy, digital culture, social & cultural networks, memory studies, Polish theatre, Polish culture, Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, Tadeusz Kantor, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Krystian Lupa, Latin American performance

Adela Karsznia

Co-Director, Culture Hub

London, UK

Working languages
Polish, Polish (sign), English, French, Yiddish
Professional activities
editing, translating, publishing, research, lecturing, web development
Areas of interest
cross-cultural performance, theatre & performance studies, Polish theatre, literature, Polish identity, theatre history, disability culture, gender & performance, memory studies

Stefan Okołowicz

Warsaw, Poland

Working languages
Polish
Professional activities
photography
Areas of interest
photography, theatre, Polish theatre, Krzysztof Warlikowski

Polish Theatre Perspectives (PTP)

publisher, resource, nonprofit organization

London, UK

Working languages
English, Polish
Professional activities
publishing
Areas of interest
Polish theatre, theatre, performance, drama, acting, directing, performer training

Grotowski Institute

cultural centre, archive, publisher, studio, performance venue

Wrocław, Poland

Working languages
Polish, English, French, Italian
Professional activities
performances, seminars, publishing, research
Areas of interest
Jerzy Grotowski, Laboratory Theatre, theatre, performance

Justyna Drobnik-Rogers

Manchester, UK

Working languages
English, Polish
Professional activities
research, lecturing
Areas of interest
Polish theatre, Krzysztof Warlikowski

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