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Habima

Hebrew theatrical company
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Habima, (Hebrew: “Stage”), Hebrew theatre company originally organized as Habima ha-ʿIvrit (Hebrew: “the Hebrew Stage”) in Białystok, in Russian Poland, in 1912 by Nahum Zemach. The troupe traveled in 1913 to Vienna, where it staged Osip Dymov’s Hear O Israel before the 11th Zionist Congress. In 1917, after World War I caused the ensemble to dissolve, Zemach established the group in Moscow, calling it Habima. Encouraged by Konstantin Stanislavsky, the director of the Moscow Art Theatre, and inspired by a fervent desire to overcome the tawdry and superficial Yiddish operettas and melodramas then in vogue, Habima opened in 1918 with ...(100 of 283 words)

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