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had a weekly show on theatre on the Israeli National Radio from 1968 to 1971, and edited and presented several TV series on theatre and William Shakespeare.
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Among his many Hebrew translations of plays and operas, commissioned and performed by all major theatre companies in Israel and the
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and the Committee Against the War in Lebanon. He has organized, spoken, and written extensively on subjects relating to achieving
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was neither morally justified nor effective." In the official biography of the Late Nobel Prize laureate
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Oz is also the general editor of the Hebrew edition (single volume series) of the works of
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Oz was also previously a theatre critic for two of the major daily papers in Israel (
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From 1982 to 1986, he served as the Head of the Department of Theatre Arts,
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The Merchant of Venice) Tel Aviv: Hakibutz Hameuchad, 1990. (In Hebrew).
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in Israel. He is a founding member of the Committee for Solidarity with
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2006 annual meeting Thursday, 2 March 2006 Israel," article about the
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Fields and Luggage: Theses on Hebrew Drama and the Zionist Narrative
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Sadot u-Mizvadot: Tesot al Hadrama ha-Ivrit ve-Hasiper ha-Zioni
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The Yoke of Love: Prophetic Riddles in "The Merchant of Venice"
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Oz directed several stage plays, among them, Shakespeare's
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He is married to Israeli theatre designer and translator
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and served as its first chairman, and in 1995, he edited
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Strands Afar Remote: Israeli Perspectives on Shakespeare
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School of Dramatic Art; Hakibbutzim Seminar College and
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Bio-Bibliographical Lexicon of Modern Hebrew Literature
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ha-Te'atron ha-politi : hasva'ah, meha'ah, nevu'ah
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ha-Te'atron ha-politi : hasva'ah, meha'ah, nevu'ah
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in English literature and theatre arts (1967) and a
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Professor Emeritus, University of Haifa
University of Haifa
Tel Aviv
Mandatory Palestine
peace activist
Israeli
Literary criticism
Tal Itzhaki
research.haifa.ac.il/~theatre/oz.html
Hebrew
comparative literature
University of Haifa
peace activist
William Shakespeare
political theatre
Tel Aviv
Mandatory Palestine
B.A.
M.A.
Tel Aviv University
University of Bristol
University of Haifa
Tel Aviv University
Beit Zvi
Sapir Academic College
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
University of Delaware
Cameri Theatre
Haifa Municipal Theatre
Academy of Performing Arts, Tel Aviv

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