An Archival Novelty: Theatre Habima’s Telegram to Joseph Goebbels

Key Points

Analyzing a historic telegram reveals deeper insights into artistic migration and cultural interactions.
The study utilizes archival materials, including correspondence and photographs, to reconstruct theatrical history.
The Habima Theatre's experience sheds light on the interplay between art, culture, and politics in pre-World War II Europe.
Organized into four novellas, the research model offers new ways to engage with archival studies.

Abstract

This article examines the history of the Jewish (later Israeli) Habima Theatre and its European transcultural experience between 1926 and 1938. The research, based on a variety of largely unknown archival materials (correspondence, administrative documents, posters, and photographs), is organised into four archival novellas that may serve as a model for the study of archives. The central novella focuses on the telegram sent by Habima to Dr. Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, in 1937. Analysing the telegram and its cultural and historical context provides insights into the phenomenon of artistic migration and its relationship with the politics and cultural milieu of the period.

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Olga Levitan (Tue,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68d462c131b076d99fa61f6d https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21827/ejtp.7.1.42840