Eugène Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco · Arts & Literature
Playwright
1909, Slatina, Romania — 1994, Paris, France
Romania · France
Eugène Ionesco is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Playwright
Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright, a founder of the Theatre of the Absurd, whose plays 'The Bald Soprano,' 'The Chairs' and 'Rhinoceros' — the last a parable against totalitarian conformity — reshaped 20th-century drama; he was elected to the Académie française. Sources including the Encyclopaedia Judaica report that his mother was of Jewish descent, though the point is disputed by his own daughter; his Jewish ancestry is therefore documented but contested.
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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Playwrights
Playwright
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Playwrights
