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Papers by Motti Lerner

The Drama Review, 1980

The Khan Theatre Company was formed in 1972 in Jerusalem by Michael Alfreds, an English Jewish th... more The Khan Theatre Company was formed in 1972 in Jerusalem by Michael Alfreds, an English Jewish theatre director and teacher. Alfreds has worked in Israel since 1968 staging several successful plays such as The Mandrake by Machiavelli and The Donkeys by Plautus in the Haifa Municipal Theatre. Despite his success he still had difficulty working in the more well established theatres. Therefore, he accepted an invitation from the Jerusalem Municipality and formed a group of six young actors who were tired of seeking a comfortable milieu. They moved to Jerusalem and found their home in a renovated ruined Turkish inn—a 750-year-old khan. With government and municipal aid they formed the Khan Theatre Company to be the only repertory theatre in Jerusalem.

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2020

Arts & International, 2016

Ade Teatro Revista De La Asociacion De Directores De Escena De Espana, 2014

Ade Teatro Revista De La Asociacion De Directores De Escena De Espana, 2014

European Journal of Medical Genetics, 2011

a b s t r a c t 1p36 deletion is the most common terminal deletion syndrome with an estimated occ... more a b s t r a c t 1p36 deletion is the most common terminal deletion syndrome with an estimated occurrence of 1:5000 live births. The deletion is of variable size. It usually involves less than 10 Mb in the 1pter-1p36.23 interval. Variability of the phenotype is partially related to the extent of the deletion. Some children with a 1p36 deletion were reported with obesity and hyperphagia, raising the question of possible phenotypic overlap with PradereWilli syndrome. Correlation between presence of obesity and the size of the deletion has only been documented in one case. We report a 11-year-old girl with 1p36 deletion and the classical dysmorphological features. In late infancy, she developed an uncontrolled voracious appetite, overweight, truncal obesity and elevated serum transaminases. Liver biopsy disclosed severe steatosis. The hepatocytes contained accumulation of lipofuscins. Lipolysosomes were abnormally numerous and extremely enlarged. These features have not been previously reported in 1p36 deletion. Oligonucleotidebased microarray analysis showed a subtelomeric 2.2 Mb deletion at 1p36.33p36.32. This suggests that this chromosome segment is a critical region for obesity and hyperphagia. The accumulation in the liver with abnormal ultrastructure may be an additional feature of this form of syndromal obesity. 1p36 deletion syndrome should be considered in patients with obesity, hyperphagia and liver fat accumulation.

This discussion is intended to examine the politics of Jewish Theatre in the 21 st century agains... more This discussion is intended to examine the politics of Jewish Theatre in the 21 st century against the backdrop of the macro-political changes that have taken place in the world from the mid-20 th century to the present day, and mainly against the backdrop of the phenomenon known as 'globalization', or more precisely, cultural globalization. Cultural globalization is usually defined as the standardization of world culture that enables different cultures to acquire cultural products from one another.

From the dawn of history human beings have fought each other, and despite the social, cultural an... more From the dawn of history human beings have fought each other, and despite the social, cultural and scientific progress they have made with the development of human civilization, they still go on fighting. For reasons that so far have not been thoroughly investigated, human beings have not managed to develop the skills that will enable them to resolve conflicts by peaceful means and they continue fighting, despite their knowing that the majority of wars have not resulted in stable political solutions. Quite the reverse: most wars only created the conditions for the wars that followed. Even when wars ended in political agreements, in most cases similar agreements could have been reached before their outbreak, and undoubtedly without them. The Yom Kippur War is but one example illustrating this paradox: in the course of 1972 representatives of Israel and Egypt conducted a political dialogue in Washington with American mediation. The dialogue was halted when Israel refused to accept the Egyptian demand of a complete withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. On Yom Kippur 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel and despite Israel's gains in the war, it withdrew from the whole of the Sinai Peninsula, just as Egypt had demanded before the war. But in the meantime more than 2,700 Israeli and over 10,000 Egyptian soldiers were killed. Were their deaths necessary? Apparently not. Could they have been avoided? Evidently, they could. A multi-tiered, complex and in-depth study of the human, social and national needs of both sides could have produced other possibilities of resolving the conflict, possibilities that were not so lethal.

The Drama Review, 1980

The Khan Theatre Company was formed in 1972 in Jerusalem by Michael Alfreds, an English Jewish th... more The Khan Theatre Company was formed in 1972 in Jerusalem by Michael Alfreds, an English Jewish theatre director and teacher. Alfreds has worked in Israel since 1968 staging several successful plays such as The Mandrake by Machiavelli and The Donkeys by Plautus in the Haifa Municipal Theatre. Despite his success he still had difficulty working in the more well established theatres. Therefore, he accepted an invitation from the Jerusalem Municipality and formed a group of six young actors who were tired of seeking a comfortable milieu. They moved to Jerusalem and found their home in a renovated ruined Turkish inn—a 750-year-old khan. With government and municipal aid they formed the Khan Theatre Company to be the only repertory theatre in Jerusalem.

International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 2020

Arts & International, 2016

Ade Teatro Revista De La Asociacion De Directores De Escena De Espana, 2014

Ade Teatro Revista De La Asociacion De Directores De Escena De Espana, 2014

European Journal of Medical Genetics, 2011

a b s t r a c t 1p36 deletion is the most common terminal deletion syndrome with an estimated occ... more a b s t r a c t 1p36 deletion is the most common terminal deletion syndrome with an estimated occurrence of 1:5000 live births. The deletion is of variable size. It usually involves less than 10 Mb in the 1pter-1p36.23 interval. Variability of the phenotype is partially related to the extent of the deletion. Some children with a 1p36 deletion were reported with obesity and hyperphagia, raising the question of possible phenotypic overlap with PradereWilli syndrome. Correlation between presence of obesity and the size of the deletion has only been documented in one case. We report a 11-year-old girl with 1p36 deletion and the classical dysmorphological features. In late infancy, she developed an uncontrolled voracious appetite, overweight, truncal obesity and elevated serum transaminases. Liver biopsy disclosed severe steatosis. The hepatocytes contained accumulation of lipofuscins. Lipolysosomes were abnormally numerous and extremely enlarged. These features have not been previously reported in 1p36 deletion. Oligonucleotidebased microarray analysis showed a subtelomeric 2.2 Mb deletion at 1p36.33p36.32. This suggests that this chromosome segment is a critical region for obesity and hyperphagia. The accumulation in the liver with abnormal ultrastructure may be an additional feature of this form of syndromal obesity. 1p36 deletion syndrome should be considered in patients with obesity, hyperphagia and liver fat accumulation.

This discussion is intended to examine the politics of Jewish Theatre in the 21 st century agains... more This discussion is intended to examine the politics of Jewish Theatre in the 21 st century against the backdrop of the macro-political changes that have taken place in the world from the mid-20 th century to the present day, and mainly against the backdrop of the phenomenon known as 'globalization', or more precisely, cultural globalization. Cultural globalization is usually defined as the standardization of world culture that enables different cultures to acquire cultural products from one another.

From the dawn of history human beings have fought each other, and despite the social, cultural an... more From the dawn of history human beings have fought each other, and despite the social, cultural and scientific progress they have made with the development of human civilization, they still go on fighting. For reasons that so far have not been thoroughly investigated, human beings have not managed to develop the skills that will enable them to resolve conflicts by peaceful means and they continue fighting, despite their knowing that the majority of wars have not resulted in stable political solutions. Quite the reverse: most wars only created the conditions for the wars that followed. Even when wars ended in political agreements, in most cases similar agreements could have been reached before their outbreak, and undoubtedly without them. The Yom Kippur War is but one example illustrating this paradox: in the course of 1972 representatives of Israel and Egypt conducted a political dialogue in Washington with American mediation. The dialogue was halted when Israel refused to accept the Egyptian demand of a complete withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. On Yom Kippur 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel and despite Israel's gains in the war, it withdrew from the whole of the Sinai Peninsula, just as Egypt had demanded before the war. But in the meantime more than 2,700 Israeli and over 10,000 Egyptian soldiers were killed. Were their deaths necessary? Apparently not. Could they have been avoided? Evidently, they could. A multi-tiered, complex and in-depth study of the human, social and national needs of both sides could have produced other possibilities of resolving the conflict, possibilities that were not so lethal.