Moshe Halevy
Moshe Halevy · Arts & Literature
Founder of the Ohel theatre (1925), the workers' theatre that became one of the pillars of Hebrew stage art before Israeli independence.
1895, Mstsislaw, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1974, Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel
Moshe Halevy is recognized among Israeli contributors to Arts & Literature — Founder of the Ohel theatre (1925), the workers' theatre that became one of the pillars of Hebrew stage art before Israeli independence.
Born Moshe Wolfovich Gurevich in Mstsislaw, he studied engineering in Moscow and joined the Habimah studio as assistant director in 1917, at the birth of modern Hebrew theatre. He left for Palestine and in 1925 founded Ohel — 'tent' — the workers' theatre under the Histadrut, whose actors farmed and worked in industry between performances; he chose the name with the poet Hayim Nahman Bialik. Its first production was Hebrew adaptations of the Yiddish writer I. L. Peretz.
Ohel became one of the pillars of Hebrew stage art before independence, and Halevy one of the founders of a national theatre in a language only just returned to daily life.
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Founder of the Ohel theatre (1925), the workers' theatre that became one of the pillars of Hebrew stage art before Israeli independence.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Halevy
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