Hanoch Levin

Hanoch Levin was born in Tel Aviv on 18 December 1943 to parents who had come from Lodz in 1935, descended from two Hasidic lines, and grew up in a religious home in the Neve Shaanan district. His father, a grocer, died when he was twelve, and he had to work while attending evening classes. His political cabarets from 1967 to 1970 caused a scandal, and Malkat ambatya was withdrawn after nineteen performances. He then wrote more than fifty plays, many of which he directed himself, and died of cancer on 18 August 1999, aged fifty-five.

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• TheatreThe Torments of Jobייסורי איובHanoch Levin · 1981Literature