Alliance for Jewish Theatre explained

The Alliance for Jewish Theatre (AJT; formerly the Association for Jewish Theatre) is a non-profit cultural and educational organization based in the United States and an alliance of theatres, performance groups, and independent theatre-makers on the creation of Jewish and Israeli theatre.[1] The organization changed its name from the Association for Jewish Theatre in late 2016.[2]

Organization

The Association held its first general meeting and first annual Jewish Theatre Festival at Marymount Manhattan College in June, 1980.[3] Norman Fedder and Steven Reisner are credited with being the movers behind AJT's founding. The organization sponsors yearly conferences, which are at times accompanied by theatre festivals.[4]

The President of AJT is Hank Kimmel. Its Executive Director is Jeremy Aluma. The association sees itself as part of the ethnic theatre movement, inspired by the black and Latino theatre movements.[5] According to The New York Times, the Association had "more than a score of members representing theater groups in the United States and Canada, from Phoenix, Ariz., to Winnipeg, Manitoba", by 1989, and was held to exemplify the "comeback" of explicitly Jewish theatre in America.[6] [7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Association for Jewish Theatre . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160127025510/http://www.afjt.com/about/mission/ . January 27, 2016.
  2. Web site: Kadimah . December 20, 2016 . AJT – the ALLIANCE for Jewish Theatre – Alliance for Jewish Theatre . live . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20230924142827/http://alljewishtheatre.org/ajt-the-alliance-for-jewish-theatre/ . September 24, 2023 . 2016-12-21 . Alliance of Jewish Theatre.
  3. Web site: Fedder . Norman J. . History . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060818181735/http://www.afjt.com/about.htm . August 18, 2006 . 2008-04-23 . Association for Jewish Theatre.
  4. Web site: Chack . David Y. . Conference – Alliance for Jewish Theatre . dead . https://wayback-api.archive.org/web/20170116161901/http://www.alljewishtheatre.org/conference/ . January 16, 2017 . 2016-12-21 . Alliance for Jewish Theatre.
  5. "Jewish Theatre Festival 1980," by Tina Margolis and Susan Weinacht, The Drama Review: TDR, Vol. 24, No. 3, Jewish Theatre Issue (Sep. 1980), pp. 93-95
  6. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/03/24/theater/jewish-theater-is-making-a-comeback.html?pagewanted=all “Jewish Theater Is Making a Comeback
  7. Shepard . Richard F. . March 24, 1989 . Jewish Theater Is Making a Comeback . Section C . The New York Times . 1 . subscription.

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