STORIES OF THE HOLOCAUST

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal Volume I: Onstage and in Concert brings</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> together international artists scholars survivors and educators to explore how theatre music and dance illuminate the human spirit in the aftermath of atrocity. Edited by Karen Berman Ph.D. and Gail Humphries Ph.D. this first of two volumes demonstrates how the performing arts serve as a profound force for remembrance empathy and transformation.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Through personal narratives critical essays and creative works contributors examine the role of performance in bearing witness to the Holocaust-transforming trauma into art and despair into resilience. From plays that revive voices silenced by genocide to symphonic and dance works that embody defiance and hope each chapter underscores the enduring capacity of the arts to heal and to educate.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Featuring contributions from leading voices in theatre music dance psychology and Holocaust studies this volume asks urgent questions about representation ethics and artistic responsibility in retelling Holocaust stories.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>At its heart </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stories of the Holocaust: Art for Healing and Renewal Volume I: Onstage and in Concert </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is a call to action: to remember to resist hate and to use creative expression as a means of moral courage. Whether read by scholars students practitioners or general readers this collection affirms that through art the legacy of the Holocaust continues to teach empathy justice and the imperative to stand against oppression-</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Never Again.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1)>Stories of the Holocaust offers a rich constellation of artistic responses to the Holocaust. Editors Berman and Humphries have assembled a diverse and dynamic team of scholars and artists who tackle this weightiest of subjects with clarity confidence and urgency.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(102 102 102 1); background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1)>-HENRY BIAL PhD author of Acting Jewish Chair Department of Theatre & Dance University of Kansas Past President Association for Theatre in Higher Education</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>These extensive two volumes provide the educated reader with a powerful collective space for both healing and resistance to genocide and hate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>-DR. SHOULAMIT MILCH-REICH Israeli Psychologist and Trauma Therapist</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>In 2018 I was asked to direct a new production of Fiddler on the Roof...I was able to achieve a final sequence that caused palpable distress and horror in our audience...We were witness to inhumanity to inexplicable prejudice to what would become . . . the Holocaust.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(247 247 247 1); color: rgba(102 102 102 1)>-SIR TREVOR NUNN British Theatre Director and former Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre</span></p><p></p>