Research project
Habima: Archival Novellas
The aim of the project is to explore the archives of the Hebrew language Habima Theater that was founded in Russia in 1917 but left the country in 1926. A complex work, based on the archives, will include the publication of documents, photographs and comments to them.
The Habima Theater was founded in 1917 in Moscow by a group of young amateur Jewish actors inspired by the revival of the Hebrew language. Fr om its inception, it played a unique role in 20th-century cultural history.
This project will publish a large collection of rare Russian-language documents from Israeli theater archives. The materials being prepared for publication include ego-documents, professional manuscripts (rehearsal notes, drafts), photo documents, and theater reviews (mostly from the Russian émigré press). In some cases, the original materials in Russian are supplemented by documents translated from Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English.
The book will also include a wide range of supplementary texts, such as commentaries, introductions and introductory notes. It is planned to organize them in a peculiar way to create cycles of self-sufficient historical narratives, reminiscent of the genre of short stories, wh ere the document and its analysis form a single whole, complementing each other. This special publishing model is supported by a graphic format developed specifically for this publication.
The project leader is Olga Levitan, PhD, Tel Aviv.
Project participants: Dina Konson, Tel Aviv University, resident set and costume designer of Passport Ensemble,Tel Aviv.
Tatiana Slepova, Doctoral student, Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem.
The project is carried out with the financial support of Alexander Klyachin.
Image: Hana Rovina, the leading actress at Habima Theater, photo from her personal archive.
This project will publish a large collection of rare Russian-language documents from Israeli theater archives. The materials being prepared for publication include ego-documents, professional manuscripts (rehearsal notes, drafts), photo documents, and theater reviews (mostly from the Russian émigré press). In some cases, the original materials in Russian are supplemented by documents translated from Hebrew, Yiddish, German and English.
The book will also include a wide range of supplementary texts, such as commentaries, introductions and introductory notes. It is planned to organize them in a peculiar way to create cycles of self-sufficient historical narratives, reminiscent of the genre of short stories, wh ere the document and its analysis form a single whole, complementing each other. This special publishing model is supported by a graphic format developed specifically for this publication.
The project leader is Olga Levitan, PhD, Tel Aviv.
Project participants: Dina Konson, Tel Aviv University, resident set and costume designer of Passport Ensemble,Tel Aviv.
Tatiana Slepova, Doctoral student, Hebrew Univeristy of Jerusalem.
The project is carried out with the financial support of Alexander Klyachin.
Image: Hana Rovina, the leading actress at Habima Theater, photo from her personal archive.