The Judaic Nature of Israeli Theatre by Dan Urian (2000, Hardcover, Illustrated)

Theatre has, since the time of the Jewish Enlightenment, served the secular community in its conflict with the religious.
This book surveys the secular-religious rift (which began to occur in the last century and which has intensified towards the end of the present) and then describes the enhanced concern of the secular community in Israel for its own Jewishness and its expression in the theatre - especially following the 1967 War. It then moves on to a specific study of the play Bruira and finally reviews the phenomenon of the return to Orthodox Judaism by secular individuals.