Ruthie Abeliovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 248319 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruthie Abeliovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruthie |
| FAMILY NAME | Abeliovich |
| SIGNATURE | ABELIOVICH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Haifa, Israel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4121-9693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cosmopolitan Connections and Immigrant Audiences: Reconsidering the Yiddish Operetta
This article examines Ben Hador, a Yiddish historical operetta written and produced in 1901 by “Professor” Moyshe Hurwitz, uncovering its deep-rooted connections to the cosmopolitan European operetta tradition of the early twentieth century. Drawing from previously unexplored archival sources, we analyze Ben Hador as a quintessential exemplar of the popular Yiddish operetta, revealing its extensive incorporation of dramatic, musical, and performa…
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality
Intermingling new and old media, this article introduces the concept of phonographic theatricality to explore the performativity of human-machine vocality. It jointly discusses the theatricality of historical and new sound media: media principles that characterized the phonograph in its emergence are still evident in the speech of contemporary AI-voice agents. Phonographic theatricality is a cross-media concept describing the conditions, playfuln…
Sewing Mothers: Re-envisioning Jewish-Christian Relations in Sholem Asch’s “On a Carnival Night”
A close examination of early twentieth-century literature written in Hebrew and Yiddish reveals that many of its first representations of Christianity put a central emphasis on Mary. This fact has been overlooked in previous scholarship fixated on the role of Jesus. Our article aims to fill this lacuna by focusing on Mary’s appearance in a short, controversial story published in 1909 by Sholem Asch. Through a close reading of Mary’s encounter wit…
Use this sound: Networked ventriloquism on Yiddish TikTok
This article explores body–voice entanglements in TikTok through the prism of ventriloquism. It suggests that TikTok is an app of network ventriloquism, that is, an audiovisual technology–based web of dissociations and reconfigurations of users’ bodies and voices. Yiddish serves as a case study for how TikTok’s features build an infrastructure for language, heritage, and cultural activism. We analyze YiddishToks as an instantiation of the ways Ti…
Work and Play: Rolf Hochhuth’s The Representative in Tel Aviv (1964)
This paper probes into the 1964 Israeli performance of Rolf Hochhuth's controversial drama The Representative . Staged by Habima National Theatre under the direction of Avraham Ninio, the majority of the cast engaged in this production comprised European-born Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors. In its cultural context, the theatrical image of Jewish refugees dressed in Nazi uniforms or, conversely, staging visual, gestural or aural markers o…
Dossier–Theatrical Vestiges: Material Remains and Theatre Historiography: Introduction
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On Guilt and Ghosts
This paper reviews Grzegorz Niziołek thought-provoking book The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust (London: Methuen Drama Press, 2019), and the key questions and issues it addresses. Focusing on Polish perspectives, theatrical representations and performative reactions to the extermination of the Jews during WWII, the book analyzes six decades of theatrical creation. Within this scheme, the victims and perpetrators are casted in the role of actors, …
Reconsidering Arnold Van Gennep's Les rites de passage from the perspective of 'Performance Studies
This article probes into the performative dimensions embedded in Arnold Van Gennep's book Les rites de passage. Focusing on the tripartite structure of Van Gennep's ritual scheme, I argue that its current reigning interpretations underestimate what 'Performance Studies' heightens: not the ritual and its consequences, but the dynamic passage-the durational procession-delineates the affiliation of the individual to society and outlines the transfor…
Choreographing Violence: Arkadi Zaides’s Archive
Israeli choreographer Arkadi Zaides’s solo dance Archive investigates the choreography of transgressions performed by Israeli fundamentalist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Screening fragments from a video archive documenting human rights violations in the occupied territories, this work invites Israeli spectators to sense the somatic impact of such actions and to consider the corporal resonance of the ongoing violence
Voice, Identity, Presence: Aural Images of Stammering in Victoria Hanna's Performance Signals
This essay explores the vocal rhetoric of Israeli performance artist Victoria Hanna in her 2005 performance Signals . In this performance, Hanna presents an interpretation of Jewish texts and rituals traditionally facilitated in public Jewish rituals by male figures. Prominent in her oratory are the symptoms of her stammering speech impediment: pauses, repetitions of syllables, segmentation of words, excessive reproduction of sounds, and prolonge…
Use this sound: Networked ventriloquism on Yiddish TikTok
This article explores body–voice entanglements in TikTok through the prism of ventriloquism. It suggests that TikTok is an app of network ventriloquism, that is, an audiovisual technology–based web of dissociations and reconfigurations of users’ bodies and voices. Yiddish serves as a case study for how TikTok’s features build an infrastructure for language, heritage, and cultural activism. We analyze YiddishToks as an instantiation of the ways Ti…
Reconsidering Arnold Van Gennep's Les rites de passage from the perspective of 'Performance Studies
This article probes into the performative dimensions embedded in Arnold Van Gennep's book Les rites de passage. Focusing on the tripartite structure of Van Gennep's ritual scheme, I argue that its current reigning interpretations underestimate what 'Performance Studies' heightens: not the ritual and its consequences, but the dynamic passage-the durational procession-delineates the affiliation of the individual to society and outlines the transfor…
Voice, Identity, Presence: Aural Images of Stammering in Victoria Hanna's Performance Signals
This essay explores the vocal rhetoric of Israeli performance artist Victoria Hanna in her 2005 performance Signals . In this performance, Hanna presents an interpretation of Jewish texts and rituals traditionally facilitated in public Jewish rituals by male figures. Prominent in her oratory are the symptoms of her stammering speech impediment: pauses, repetitions of syllables, segmentation of words, excessive reproduction of sounds, and prolonge…
Choreographing Violence: Arkadi Zaides’s Archive
Israeli choreographer Arkadi Zaides’s solo dance Archive investigates the choreography of transgressions performed by Israeli fundamentalist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Screening fragments from a video archive documenting human rights violations in the occupied territories, this work invites Israeli spectators to sense the somatic impact of such actions and to consider the corporal resonance of the ongoing violence
Reconsidering Arnold Van Gennep's Les rites de passage from the perspective of 'Performance Studies
This article probes into the performative dimensions embedded in Arnold Van Gennep's book Les rites de passage. Focusing on the tripartite structure of Van Gennep's ritual scheme, I argue that its current reigning interpretations underestimate what 'Performance Studies' heightens: not the ritual and its consequences, but the dynamic passage-the durational procession-delineates the affiliation of the individual to society and outlines the transfor…
Work and Play: Rolf Hochhuth’s The Representative in Tel Aviv (1964)
This paper probes into the 1964 Israeli performance of Rolf Hochhuth's controversial drama The Representative . Staged by Habima National Theatre under the direction of Avraham Ninio, the majority of the cast engaged in this production comprised European-born Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors. In its cultural context, the theatrical image of Jewish refugees dressed in Nazi uniforms or, conversely, staging visual, gestural or aural markers o…
Dossier–Theatrical Vestiges: Material Remains and Theatre Historiography: Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
On Guilt and Ghosts
This paper reviews Grzegorz Niziołek thought-provoking book The Polish Theatre of the Holocaust (London: Methuen Drama Press, 2019), and the key questions and issues it addresses. Focusing on Polish perspectives, theatrical representations and performative reactions to the extermination of the Jews during WWII, the book analyzes six decades of theatrical creation. Within this scheme, the victims and perpetrators are casted in the role of actors, …
Use this sound: Networked ventriloquism on Yiddish TikTok
This article explores body–voice entanglements in TikTok through the prism of ventriloquism. It suggests that TikTok is an app of network ventriloquism, that is, an audiovisual technology–based web of dissociations and reconfigurations of users’ bodies and voices. Yiddish serves as a case study for how TikTok’s features build an infrastructure for language, heritage, and cultural activism. We analyze YiddishToks as an instantiation of the ways Ti…
Sewing Mothers: Re-envisioning Jewish-Christian Relations in Sholem Asch’s “On a Carnival Night”
A close examination of early twentieth-century literature written in Hebrew and Yiddish reveals that many of its first representations of Christianity put a central emphasis on Mary. This fact has been overlooked in previous scholarship fixated on the role of Jesus. Our article aims to fill this lacuna by focusing on Mary’s appearance in a short, controversial story published in 1909 by Sholem Asch. Through a close reading of Mary’s encounter wit…
Cosmopolitan Connections and Immigrant Audiences: Reconsidering the Yiddish Operetta
This article examines Ben Hador, a Yiddish historical operetta written and produced in 1901 by “Professor” Moyshe Hurwitz, uncovering its deep-rooted connections to the cosmopolitan European operetta tradition of the early twentieth century. Drawing from previously unexplored archival sources, we analyze Ben Hador as a quintessential exemplar of the popular Yiddish operetta, revealing its extensive incorporation of dramatic, musical, and performa…
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality
Intermingling new and old media, this article introduces the concept of phonographic theatricality to explore the performativity of human-machine vocality. It jointly discusses the theatricality of historical and new sound media: media principles that characterized the phonograph in its emergence are still evident in the speech of contemporary AI-voice agents. Phonographic theatricality is a cross-media concept describing the conditions, playfuln…
Art (9 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Judaism (6 works) · Visual arts (6 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (4 works) · Law (4 works)