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משפט האבהות של הנגר יוסף
קישון חורג גם הפעם מדרכו וכותב מסה היסטורית בתחפושת של קומדיה עליזה, המעבירה את ימי הקדם לאולם בית המשפט של היום. גיבוריה של המסה הם יוסף נגר, בעלה שלך מריה הבתולה, התובע לדין את האל הנוצרי, אביו של התינוק שנולד כזכור ברפת של בית לחם."דמויות אלו, מעידן הולדת הנצרות, כבשו את ליבי ועוררו את סקרנותי. דרך דברי הגיבורים של הברית החדשה, כמו גבריאל המלאך ורוח הקודש, האוונגחיסטים ואף השטן בעצמו, ביקשתי להביע במחזה הזה את פיקפוקי לגבי רזי האלוהות, אשר לוחמי האומנות השונות במזרח ובמערב מנסים לשוא לפענח, מאז הניח משה ת יסודות יראת השמים ועד עצם הים הזה.בהתגנבי לשדות זרים גברה בי ההכרה אשר נשמעת כה זרה באוזני אומות העולם, שהסיפור הוא מורשת אבותי, וכל הדמויות בו הם יהודים כמוני."
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Ephraim Kishon
267 books163 followersEphraim Kishon (Hebrew: אפרים קישון) was an Israeli writer, satirist, dramatist, screenwriter, and film director.
Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.
During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sobibor death camp in Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovakian laborer.
After 1945 he changed his surname from Hoffmann to Kishont to disguise his Jewish heritage and returned to Hungary to study art and publish humorous plays. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 to escape the Communist regime, and an immigration officer gave him the name Ephraim Kishon.
His first marriage, in 1946 to Eva (Chawa) Klamer, ended in divorce. In 1959, he married his second wife Sara (née Lipovitz), who died in 2002. In 2003, he married the Austrian writer Lisa Witasek. He had three children: Raphael (b. 1957), Amir (b. 1963), and Renana (b. 1968).
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Born into a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary, as Ferenc Hoffmann (Hungarian Hoffmann Ferenc), Kishon studied sculpture and painting, and then began publishing humorous essays and writing for the stage.
During World War II the Nazis imprisoned him in several concentration camps. At one camp his chess talent helped him survive as the camp commandant was looking for an opponent. In another camp the Germans lined up the inmates shooting every tenth person, passing him by. He later wrote in his book The Scapegoat, "They made a mistake—they left one satirist alive." He managed to escape while being transported to the Sobibor death camp in Poland, and hid the remainder of the war disguised as "Stanko Andras", a Slovakian laborer.
After 1945 he changed his surname from Hoffmann to Kishont to disguise his Jewish heritage and returned to Hungary to study art and publish humorous plays. He immigrated to Israel in 1949 to escape the Communist regime, and an immigration officer gave him the name Ephraim Kishon.
His first marriage, in 1946 to Eva (Chawa) Klamer, ended in divorce. In 1959, he married his second wife Sara (née Lipovitz), who died in 2002. In 2003, he married the Austrian writer Lisa Witasek. He had three children: Raphael (b. 1957), Amir (b. 1963), and Renana (b. 1968).
Bulgarian Profile.
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February 23, 2021
An extremely funny play about how Joseph would sue in court God for alimonies to Jesus. Koshon manages to morph past time and present (some of the evidence is from books who weren't wrote yet), secular and religious (how God, Devil and other beings are treated in court), justice and corruption (the judge falls for Maria, God is exercising undue pressure on witnesses) and seriousness and silliness (asking God for his date of birth). Even though it's not perfect this play is a great satirical piece to poke fun of Christianity and any religion
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