Michael Handelzalts (born 1950) ( he, מיכאל הנדלזלץ) is an Israeli theater critic.
Biography
Michael Handelzalts was born in Poland. His grandfather,
Elyahu Handelzalc
Elijah ( ; he, אֵלִיָּהוּ, ʾĒlīyyāhū, meaning "My El (deity), God is Yahweh/YHWH"; Greek form: Elias, ''Elías''; syr, ܐܸܠܝܼܵܐ, ''Elyāe''; Arabic language, Arabic: إلياس or إليا, ''Ilyās'' or ''Ilyā''. ) w ...
, was a teacher and writer from Warsaw, Poland who fled the city in 1939. He is believed to have been murdered by German troops in
Novogrudok
Novogrudok ( be, Навагрудак, Navahrudak; lt, Naugardukas; pl, Nowogródek; russian: Новогрудок, Novogrudok; yi, נאַוואַראַדאָק, Novhardok, Navaradok) is a town in the Grodno Region, Belarus.
In the Middle A ...
, along with 70 Jewish intellectuals who were rounded up and taken to an unknown destination.
Michael Handelzalts is a theater critic for
Haaretz
''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner f ...
newspaper. He was the founder and first editor of the paper's Book Review Magazine. He writes a weekly column for Haaretz, "Pen Ultimate."
Wordplay: The (ethnic) devil is in the details
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See also
*Israeli culture
The roots of the culture of Israel developed long before modern Israel's independence in 1948, and traces back to ancient Israel ( 1000 BCE). It reflects Jewish culture, Jewish history in the diaspora, the ideology of the Zionist movement that ...
References
Further reading
Handelzalts on Shakespeare
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1950 births
Living people
Israeli journalists
Israeli theatre critics
Israeli editors
Israeli magazine editors
Polish emigrants to Israel
Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
Israeli Jews