Ruthie Abeliovich is assistant professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Tel Aviv University. Abeliovich is the author of Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theatre (SUNY 2019), finalist for the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award. She is co-editor of A Stage of Their Own: 7 American Feminist Plays (Hebrew), and co-editor of Borderlines: Essays on Maps and The Logic of Place (Sciendo, 2019). Abeliovich has published articles in the journals TDR, Theatre Journal, Performance-Research, Theatre Research International, Journal of Classical Sociology, and New Media & Society. In 2020 Abeliovich received a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant to pursue research on the popular Yiddish theatre (1880-1920).
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