Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest by Garrett Eisler Sale Books And Noelle

And Noelle

An unhappy housewife has new emotions stirred in her by an intellectual boarder

Yet their story survives

through narratives of encounter and acts of theatricalization

but images of themselves

Ben Hecht's Theatre of Jewish Protest by Garrett Eisler Sale Books And NoelleBen Hecht is most remembered as a famous Hollywood screenwriter and Broadway playwright, but only recently has his extensive Jewish activism during the Holocaust and its aftermath received scholarly attention. Unlike other, more expansive Hecht biographies, this book focuses in depth on his Jewish political theatre, drawing on extensive archival research of four dramas: We Will Never Die (1943), A Jewish Fairy Tale (1944), A Flag Is Born (1946), and