Staging the Holocaust in the land of brotherhood and unity: holocaust drama in socialist Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s Universiteit Gent
THIS article considers two theatrical works written by Dorde Lebovic (1928-2004), premiered in Socialist Yugoslavia in the mid-1950s and 1960s: Nebeski odred (The Heavenly Squad, 1957, co-authored with Aleksandar Obrenovi6) and Viktorija (Viktorija, 1968). Not only was Lebovic the first playwright in Socialist Yugoslavia to bring the theme of the Holocaust to a larger audience, but his plays also addressed issues of Holocaust remembrance in a ...