Tuvia Tenenbom is a Spiegel and Haaretz best-selling author, journalist, dramatist, and the founder of the Jewish Theater of New York. Tuvia studied for his doctorate in English literature at St. John's University, earned his MFA in Playwriting at CUNY-Brooklyn, a BS in mathematics and computer science at Touro, and finished his rabbinical studies in Jerusalem. He also studied Christianity and Islam in Israel and New York, as well as journalism, acting, theater, and finance.
In 2003, Germany's most prestigious newspaper Die Zeit named Tuvia Tenenbom and Prof. Harold Bloom "the best minds" in America. Tuvia was named founder of a new form of Jewish theater by the French Le Monde, founder of The Theater of Catastrophe by the German Die Zeit, "The New Jew" by the Israeli Maariv, a "free artist who fights for truth and tolerance" by the Belgian Le Vif L'Express, and "one of the most iconoclastic and innovative of contemporary dramatists" by the Italian Corriere della Sera. Critic D. J. R. Bruckner, reviewing for the New York Times, described Tuvia's theatrical work as "irresistibly fascinating," and Alisa Solomon, writing for the Village Voice, called it "theater of integrity, inquiry and chutzpah."
As a journalist, Tuvia writes essays and op-eds for leading Western media, including Die Zeit of Germany, Corriere della Sera of Italy, Yedioth Ahronoth of Israel, and Fox News in the United States. He is also a columnist for Die Zeit, where his column Fett wie ein Turnschuh appears twice a month. Tuvia is the author of the Spiegel Top-10 best seller Allein unter Deutschen, published in English as I Sleep in Hitler's Room, and the number one Israeli best seller Catch the Jew!.
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