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Haim Gamzu

Haim Gamzu

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Haim Gamzu (Hebrew: חיים גמזו) (1910–1982) (also Haim Gamzou) was an Israeli art and drama critic.

Biography

Memorial plaque, home of Haim Gamzu in Tel Aviv

Haim Gamzu was born in Chernihiv in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine). In 1923, his family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine. Gamzu studied art and philosophy at the Sorbonne and University of Vienna.

His son Yossi Gamzu was a professor of poetry.

Art history and theater career

Gamzu was appointed director of the Tel Aviv Museum in 1962. He established Israel's first theater school, Beit Zvi, in Ramat Gan.

Gamzu wrote several books on Israeli painting and sculpture, and worked for Haaretz newspaper as an art and theater critic.[1]

Known for his acerbic theater reviews, Gamzu's surname was turned into a new Hebrew verb, ligmoz, which means to pan a theater show.[2]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Haim Gamzu Collection of Israeli Theater, Yale University
  2. [2]
    Yossi Gamzu, poetry professor and son of theater critics dies, age 81, Jerusalem Post
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