The Jewish Cultural Center of Ljubljana, the Mini Theater and the Yiddishpiel Theater announce the staging of the street show/performance Jewish Life in Ljubljana. The script and text were prepared by Robert Waltl and Vinko Möderndorfer, while the actors of the Mini Theater and the Yiddishpiel theater from Tel Aviva came together for the performance.
The script for the performance is based on the materials collected by Robert Waltl and Boris Hajdinjak as part of the project Spotikavci v Ljubljani (Stolpersteine in Ljubljana) and published in the booklet Holokavst v Ljubljani (Holocaust in Ljubljana) (Jewish Cultural Centre Ljubljana, 2019), the materials for the exhibition Holokavst v Ljubljani (Holocaust in Ljubljana) prepared by Dr. Blaž Vurnik for the JKC Ljubljana and the Ljubljana City Museum, as well as on the numerous testimonies and photographs collected by the Jewish Cultural Centre Ljubljana.
The script and the text for the street play-performance Jewish Life in Ljubljana, sponsored by the City Municipality of Ljubljana, Tourism Ljubljana and the Embassy of Israel, were prepared by Robert Waltl and Vinko Möderndorfer, and the actors from Mini teater and Yiddishpiel teater from Israel have joined together under the direction of the Israeli director Yonatan Estrkin, already well-known to the Slovenian audience. In eight scenes they will present a fragment of pre-war Jewish life in Ljubljana with Jewish customs and celebrations, as well as the occupation and the Holocaust period in Ljubljana, when thousands of refugees joined the local Jews, first from Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and after 1941, especially hundreds of Croatian Jews, who were persecuted by the NDH and found a temporary safe haven in Ljubljana. The performance will then take us through the persecution of the Jews of Ljubljana and their deportation to the extermination camps, to their participation in the Liberation Front and the partisan units. All of this will be linked by Jewish music, performed live by musicians from the Kletzmer Trio.
Performing actors: Hanna Hill, Nathan Hecht, Omer Rozenblum, Nika Korenjak, Barbara Vidovič, Timotej Novaković and Tadej Pišek.
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