About

Diego Rotman is a Senior Lecturer, researcher, multidisciplinary artist and curator. His research focuses on performative practices related to local historiography, Yiddish theater, contemporary art and folklore and research creation projects.

Selected Publications

Diego Rotman. 2021. The Yiddish Stage as a Temporary Home - Dzigan and Shumacher's Satirical Theater (1927-1980), Pp. 321. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Diego Rotman. 2020. “Language Politics, Memory, and Discourse: Yiddish Theatre in Israel (1948-2003).” Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 6, 2.

Diego Rotman. 2019. “Building and Developing HaMesila Park: From Resistance to Collaboration.” In Understanding Campus-Community Partnerships in Conflict Zones Engaging Students for Transformative Change, edited by Dalya Yafa Markovich, Daphna Golan, and Nadera Shalhoub Kervokian. Palgrave.

 Diego Rotman. 2019. “The Fragile Boundaries of Paradise: The Paradise Inn Resort at the Former Jerusalem Leprosarium.” In Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and The Logic of Place, edited by Edwin Seroussi and Ruthie Abeliovich. Jerusalem: Sciendo / I-Core.

Diego Rotman. 2017. “On the architecture of the ephemeral: The Eternal Sukkah of the Jahalin tribe.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.

Selected Awards

2019,  Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies

2017, Prize of the Israeli Minister of Culture for Visual Artists (together with Lea Mauas)

2018, Nominated for the Keshet Award in Visual Arts.

2014, Prize for an outstanding PhD Thesis, by the Leonid Nevzlin Research Center for Russian and East European Jewry.

2006, Prize for an outstanding M.A. Thesis by Beit Shalom Aleichem.

Teaching

Art as Research (Lab)

Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies

The City as a Performative Arena: Performance, Intervention and Actions in the Public Space 

Dybbuk: Between Theatre and Ethnography

Cabaret Satire and Theater: Jewish Theatre in Europe

From Avant-garde to Political Satire: Dzigan and Shumacher's Theater

History of Theater in the Modern Period: Modernism and Avant-Garde