Staging History from the Shoah to Palestine

Inez Hedges is Emerita Professor of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at Northeastern University, Boston, USA. Her play “Children of Drancy” was performed in 2007 as part of an advanced undergraduate learning community. She wrote “Kafka in Palestine” in 2017–19 while a Resident Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, Waltham. Her previous books include Framing Faust: 20th Century Cultural Struggles (2005); and World Cinema and Cultural Memory (2015).

• 1. Chapter One: Introduction.- 2. Chapter Two: Staging the Shoah: The Persecution of Jews in France under German Occupation.- 3. Play: “Children of Drancy”.-  4. Chapter Three: Theatre of and about the German Occupation of France and the French Resistance, 1940-1944.-  5. Play: “The Eagle and the Cactus”.-  6. Chapter Four: Theatre of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.- 7. Play: “Kafka in Palestine”.