Habima

Habima, (Hebrew: “Stage”), Hebrew theatre company originally organized as Habima ha-ʿIvrit (Hebrew: “the Hebrew Stage”) in Białystok, in Russian Poland, in 1912 by Nahum Zemach. The troupe traveled in 1913 to Vienna, where it staged Osip Dymov’s Hear O Israel before the 11th Zionist Congress. In 1917, after World War I caused the ensemble to dissolve, Zemach established the group in Moscow, calling it Habima. Encouraged by Konstantin Stanislavsky, the director of the Moscow Art...