A tale of abandonment
By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2019-10-12 07:15
Hanoch Levin's play portraying the plight of Jewish refugees fleeing Germany ahead of World War II set to be staged in the capital
On May 13, 1939, a vessel set sail from Hamburg for Cuba with 937 German-Jewish refugees, following the violence of Kristallnacht. The refugees were denied entry to Cuba and then they had to sail from port to port, hoping to find a country that would accept them.
This event inspired Israeli playwright and director Hanoch Levin (1943-99) to write a play, which, instead of a historic piece, turned out to be a poetic and dreamy piece, entitled The Child Dreams.
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