The concentration camp and Jewish ghetto at Terezín, or Theresienstadt, in what is now the Czech Republic, was a site of enormous suffering, fear, and death; but in the midst of this was a thriving and desperately vibrant cultural life. While the children’s drawings and musical pieces created in the ghetto have become justly famous, the prisoners’ theatrical works, though a lesser-known aspect of their artistic endeavors, deserves serious attention as well.
Performing Captivity collects eleven theatrical texts―cabaret songs and sketches, historical and verse dramas, puppet plays, and a Purim play―written by Czech and Austrian Jews. Together these works reveal the wide range of ways in which the prisoners engaged with and escaped from life in the ghetto through performance. The anthology opens with an insightful preface by novelist Ivan Klíma, who was interned in the ghetto as a child, and contains a detailed introduction by editor Lisa Peschel about the pre-war theatrical influences and wartime conditions that inspired the theater of the ghetto.
 The array of theatrical forms collected in Performing Captivity speaks of the prisoners’ persistence of hope in a harrowing time and will be moving reading for students of the Holocaust.

Performing Captivity, Performing Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezin/Theresienstadt Ghetto (In Performance)

Arts & Photography

PESCHEL, LISA

Performing Arts

Seagull Books

EIHWAZ the yew, URUZ the wild ox, KENAZ the hearth fire. Created by the Nordic and Germanic tribes of northern Europe, the runes began as a magickal system of pictographs representing the forces and objects in nature. This guidebook will help you discover the oracular nature of the runes and how to use them as a magickal tool for insight, protection, and luck. Practical and concise, this book includes: <ul>
<li>Complete descriptions of the twenty-four runes of the Elder Futhark, plus WYRD, the blank rune</li> <li>The differences between bindrunes and runescripts</li> <li>Four rune layouts and detailed rune interpretations, including reversed position meanings</li> <li>How to carve runes and create talismans</li> <li>Meanings and uses of the runes in magick</li> </ul>

A Practical Guide to the Runes: Their Uses in Divination and Magick (Llewellyn's New Age)

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

Llewellyn Publications

Das magische Runen-Handbuch

Aurinia Verlag

Las runas empezaron a ser usadas por los pueblos germánicos entre los siglos I y II. Se trata de una antigua práctica oracular redescubierta en el siglo xx y famosa por su eficacia como un sistema de consulta y orientación incluso para la resolución de los problemas más complejos. Esta Guía práctica de las runas te ofrece, de una forma concisa y amena, la descripción completa de las 25 runas, los sistemas rúnicos de adivinación, las instrucciones para fabricar runas y accesorios. Asimismo, contiene información sobre el significado y los usos de las runas en la magia. En ella encontrarás también las indicaciones precisas para tallar runas, convertirlas en talismanes, y la explicación de las diferencias que se dan entre las runas como elemento mágico de escritura.

Guía práctica de las runas

Religion & Spirituality

Occult & Paranormal

EDICIONES OBELISCO S.L.

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