David Y. Chack is adjunct professor at The Theatre School at DePaul University, Chicago in Jewish-American, Holocaust and Identity Theatre; is the Producing Artistic Director of ShPIeL-Performing Identity and the Executive Director of the Association for Jewish Theatre.
David Y. Chack
By David Y. Chack
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Though not an observant Jew, the actor embodied more than a few Jewish values
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Culture How Theodore Bikel found his calling in the civil rights movement
When civil rights activist and NAACP State Field Representative Medgar Evers was murdered, by a Mississippi white supremacist in 1963, a protest rally was organized in Evers’ memory. Theodore Bikel, a rising star in theatre, film, and Broadway musicals, was one of the founders of The Newport Folk Festival. He had been nominated for the…
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Community Why American Jewish Historians Aren’t Giving Up On Israel
Ysoscher Katz, in his Aug 3 article “We Won’t Give Up On Israel, Even If American Historians Do,” bemoans that American Jewish historians are jumping ship in regards to Israel as a Zionist and democratic entity. He is referring to Hasia Diner’s and Marjorie Feld’s Aug 1 opinion article in Haaretz, “We’re American Jewish Historians….
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A small yet vocal group seems to be holding the artistic and ethical sensibilities of the Jewish community of Washington, D.C. hostage, leading Theatre J to scale back its planned production of ‘The Admission’ by Motti Lerner. Theatre, like all arts, is meant to create dialogue as well as delight, foster intellectual discourse for new…
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