The Habima–Israel’S National Theater 1917–1977. a Study of Cultural Nationalism

Examines the political, ideological, and artistic roles of the Habima theater between its founding in Moscow in 1917 to the 1970s. It attempts to identify underlying patterns of change in the roles, structure, and functions of the Habima theater, with its major objective to describe the specific changes in its ideology, mission, repertoire, organization, and audiences between 1917 and 1977 and to analyze the causes and consequences of those changes.