Shulamit Bat-Dori
Polish-Israeli playwright, kibbutz theatre director and producer, and dance festival director
Shulamit Bat-Dori (Hebrew: שולמית בת-דורי; 7 December 1904 – February 1985; née Gutgeld) was a Polish-Israeli playwright, kibbutz theatre director and producer, and dance festival director. A member of Hashomer Hatzair and its kibbutz, Mishmar HaEmek, she was involved in the development of political theatre in Palestine, writing and producing plays that reinforced the ideology of the Kibbutz Movement. She was known for her huge, open-air performances that enlisted hundreds of kibbutz members and attracted thousands of viewers. She represented Israel at international conferences and was a professor in the theatre department at Tel Aviv University from 1965 to 1974.
Early life and education
Shulamit Gutgeld was born to an assimilated Jewish family in Warsaw. Her father, Joseph Gutgeld, had been raised in a wealthy Haredi home and was married at the age of 16. After having two children, at the age of 21, he gave up Orthodox Judaism, deserted his wife and children, and moved to Warsaw without any means of support. In 1899, he married Helene, an assimilated Jew herself from a financially comfortable family. The couple had two children, Mordechai (born 1900) and Shulamit. Joseph committed suicide in 1922.
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