The Palmach Anthem, Budapest 1946. Courtesy of David Gur and The Society for the History of the Zionist Youth Movement in Hungary, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company Archives, Kibbutz Ga’aton Archive and Moreshet, The Mordechai Anielewicz Center for Holocaust Documentation, Research and EducationPart of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism, Refugees and the Holocaust

Part of our new seminar series: Humanitarianism, Refugees and the Holocaust

For her doctoral dissertation Gdalit Neuman researched the earliest dance repertoire of Israel’s Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company’s founding artistic director, the late Yehudit Arnon, in the framework of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Hungary in the immediate post-war period.

This was but one aspect of the relief and rehabilitation provided to Hungarian Jewish children by Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in the aftermath of the Holocaust following their significant and successful efforts to save Hungary’s Jews. Through dance reconstruction techniques, personal accounts and stunning photography, in this talk Neuman will illuminate some of the incredible and often less-known story of Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement in Hungary during, and especially, after the Holocaust; from resistance to resilience, to recovery and renewal.

About the Speaker

Gdalit Neuman is a PhD candidate in the Department of Dance at York University in Toronto, where she completed both her BFA and MA in dance, and where she was on faculty for five years. Her writings and research on dance and Zionism have been published in The Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance, Performance Matters online journal, Dance International Magazine, The Dance Current magazine, as well as Dance Today and Rokdim-Nirkoda magazines in Israel.

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