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Tuvia Tenenbom (born in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a theater director, playwright, author, journalist, essayist and the founding artistic director of the Jewish Theater of New York, the only English-speaking Jewish theater in New York City. Tenenbom was named "founder of a new form of Jewish theatre" by the French Le Monde and a "New Jew" by the Israeli Maariv. Tenenbom is also an academic, having university degrees in a variety of fields: mathematics, computer science, dramatic writing and literature.

Dramatic Works

Tenenbom has written over sixteen plays for The Jewish Theater of New York, widely recognized by American and European critics. German newspaper Die Zeit described Tenenbom's play The last virgin as more desperately needed in Germany than suspected; The New York Times, reviewing Tenenbom's play "Father of the Angels", called it "irresistibly fascinating;" and Corriere della Sera, reviewing Tenenbom's play Last Jew In Europe named Tenenbom "One of the most iconoclastic and innovative of contemporary dramatists."

Tenenbom's theatrical works include:

• The Blue Rope

• The Last Virgin

• One Hundred Gates

• Diary of Adolf Eichmann

• Love Letters to Adolf Hitler

• Like Two Eagles

• Beggar of Borough Park

• Love in Great Neck

• The American Jew

• The Suicide Bomber

• Mountain Jews

• Kabbalah

• Press #93 for Kosher Jewish Girls in Krakow

• Father of the Angels

• Saida: A Tunisian Love Story

• Last Jew in Europe

Political Essays and Other Writing

Tuvia Tenenbom writes for various newspapers and websites, and his political articles, culture criticism and essays have been published in media outlets such as Die Zeit of Germany, Corriere della Sera of Italy, Yedioth Ahronot of Israel and Fox News. Tuvia Tenenbom is also a columnist for Zeit Online, writing on sports and spirituality; his column appears every second week.

Book "I Sleep in Hitler's Room"

Tenenbom's book about present-day Germany, I Sleep in Hitler's Room, an imprint of The Jewish Theater of New York, is a psychological travelogue through Germany of our time. Described by the Israeli paper, Haaretz, as an "alarming account of anti-Semitism," the book details a widespread modern-day European anti-Semitism. "Tuvia Tenenbom comes off as a Jewish Hunter S Thompson," says Spengler columnist of Asia Times in his review of the book, adding: "To understand Germans, one has to learn their language and live with them – or read Tenenbom’s book." Bruce Bawer, reviewing "I Sleep in Hitler's Room" for PJ Media, writes: "It's a book in a category all its own—deeply sobering, depressing even, in its observations of the darker side of Germany, yet at the same time so chatty and engaging and laugh-out-loud funny that it's hard to put down." The book also received strong endorsement from the National Review , calling it "a tremendous book."

In December 2012, a German translation of Tenenbom's book titled Allein unter Deutschen ("Alone Among Germans"), published by Suhrkamp Verlag of Berlin, became an instant bestseller on the Spiegel Best Seller list. Upon publication in Germany, book critics widely varied in their opinion, offering extremely opposing views. While Der Spiegel was highly critical of the book, as was Spiegel publisher Jakob Augstein. In the left-leaning media, the TAZ was extremely critical, writing that Tenenbom's book offered "zero insight", while Jungle World called the book "a gem." The German-Jewish journalist Henryk M. Broder however praised Tenenbom's "one-sidedness" and compared him to both Michael Moore and Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat in Die Welt. German TV station WDR, which Tenenbom accused in his book of assisting an anti-Semitic group in Cologne, dismissed the book as "embarrassing and dumb.". Deutschlandfunk encouraged its listeners not to buy the book and advised those who have already bought it to bring it back to the bookstore. Evelyn Finger of Die Zeit praised the book, calling it "courageous" and describing its content as a "Kamikaze ride of discovery into Germany's national character." In Germany's Jewish weekly Jüdische Allgemeine, which is published by the Jewish community of Germany, Hannes Stein endorsed Tenenbom's book and findings: "This book contains the bitter nectar of the pure, unfiltered truth.".

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