Yehuda Moraly

Yehuda (Jean-Bernard) Moraly is professor emeritus of Theatre Studies at the Hebrew University. His fields of research are mainly French theater and film. His first book (Jean Genet, la vie écrite, Paris, 1988) opposed Genet's official  image (as an uncultured outlaw) and showed him to be a highly cultured writer whose need to write determined all the aspects of his life, since his childhood. The ensuing publication of more comprehensive biographies of Genet has not erased the impact of this new conception, which has become a point of reference for research on Genet's work.The second theme of his research, the theatrical creation of Paul Claudel, is not so far from the first as it may seem. In Claudel metteur en scène : la frontière entre les deux mondes, Besançon, 1998) Moraly opposes the accepted image of Paul Claudel as a paragon of arrière-garde theater. The book reveals unknown aspects of Claudel's work: his ballets, his theatrical experiments and his exploration of a new kind of musical theater. Le Maître fou, (Nizet, 2009)  analyses Genet's theoretical texts on theater and art. These texts, neglected by scholarship, offer a key for the comprehension of Genet's dramatic work and reflect the powers and the limits of artistic creation.His latest books, are L'oeuvre impossible, Editions le Manuscrit, Paris, 2013, 208 pp. and Révolution au Paradis, représentations voilées du Juif dans le cinéma de la France occupée, Editions Elkana, Jerusalem, 2015, 345 pp. This latest book is devoted to the veiled representations of Jewish characters in Occupied France's Theater and Film (Les Enfants du Paradis, Volpone, La Folle de Chaillot, etc…).  It has been recently translated into English and published as Revolution in Paradise by Sussex University Press, Brighton
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