Doctoral Dissertation
Voice-Identity-Presence: The Rhetoric's of Ventriloquism in Contemporary Women’s Vocal Performance Art. Supervisor: Professor Freddie Rokem.
Book
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2019. Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theatre (SUNY Press series in Contemporary Jewish Literature and Culture).
*2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Finalist in the category of “Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual.”
Reviews:
Hellman Jacob. 2020. “Review of Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theater, by Ruthie Abeliovich.” Journal of Jewish Identities, vol. 13.2: 253-254.
Elan Marchinko. 2021. “Review of Possessed Voices: Aural Remains From Modernist Hebrew Theatre, by Ruthie Abeliovich.” Theatre Journal, vol. 73.3: 440-442.
Books Edited
Abeliovich Ruthie and Edwin Seroussi (Eds.). 2019. Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and The Logic of Place (Warsaw: De Gruyter Press).
Abeliovich Ruthie, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, and Linda Ben-Zvi (Eds.). 2015. A Stage of Their Own: Seven American Feminist Plays (Tel Aviv University press: Assaph). (Hebrew).
Book Chapters
Abeliovich Ruthie, Cabranes-Grant Leo, Yoon Soo Ryon. “Conversation: Difficulty, Complexity, Mess.” The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre & Performance Studies, Eds. Tracy C. Davis and Paul Rae (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024). 284-299.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2023. “The Yiddish Theater Republic of Sounds and the Performance of Listening.” The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Music Studies. Ed. Tina Fruhauf (Oxford University Press). 357-380.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2023. “The Dybbuk Before The Dybbuk: A Bastard History.” The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play That Possessed The World. Eds. Debra Caplan and Rachel Merrill Moss (University of Michigan Press). 15-37.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2019. "Archived Voices: Attempting to Listen to the Theatrical Past." The Methuen Drama Handbook to Theatre History and Historiography. Eds. Joanna Robinson and Claire Cochrane. (London and New York: Bloomsbury Press).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2019. “Vocalic Borderlines and Theatrical Soundscapes: a Study of a Lamentation Recording from Habima’s Performance The Eternal Jew”. Borderlines: Essays on Mapping and The Logic of Place (Warsaw: De Gruyter Press).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2017 “The voice of The Nation's Mother: Hanna Rovina as An Acoustic Icon.” Habima: New Studies on National Theatre. Eds. Gad Kaynar, Dorit Yerushalmi and Shelly Zer-Zion (Tel Aviv: Resling Press). (Hebrew).
Peer-Review Journals
Ruthie Abeliovich and Yonatan Moss. 2024. “Sewing Mothers: Re-Envisioning Jewish-Christian Relations in Sholem Asch’s On a Carnival Night.” European Journal of Jewish Studies 18: 1-24.
Ruthie Abeliovich. 2023. "Kol Nidre and the Making of the Jewish Theatre Audience." Ingeveb Journal (special issue on ‘Shund’, edited by Nick Underwood, Sonia Gollance and Joel Berkowitz).
Ruthie Abeliovich. 2022. “Louis Zwiebel and The Transnational Mediation of Popular Yiddish Theatre.” Judaic Slavic Journal 1-2(7-8): 107-133. (In Russian).
Ruthie Abeliovich. 2022. “Behind the Mask.” Dapim: Research in Literature, Vol. 23, 75-100. (Hebrew).
Ruthie Abeliovich and Ido Ramati. 2022. “Use this sound: Networked ventriloquism on Yiddish TikTok.” New Media & Society.
Abeliovich Ruthie and T. Sofie Taubert. 2020. “Dossier–Theatrical Vestiges: Material Remains and Theatre Historiography: Introduction.” Theatre Research International 45.3:297-302.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2020. “Work and Play: Rolf Hochhuth’s The Representative in Tel Aviv (1964).” Theatre Research International 45.3: 326-331.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2018. "Reconsidering Arnold Van Gennep’s Les Rites de Passage: A ‘Performance Studies’ Perspective." Journal of Classical Sociology 18.4: 283-298.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2016. “Choreographing Violence in Archive, by Arkadi Zaides.” The Drama Review T229: 65-70.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2015. “Voice, Identity, Presence: Stammering as an Aural Image in Victoria Hanna's Performance Signals.”Theatre Journal 67.1: 43-61.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2014. “The Occupying Spectator: Audio-Spatial Ruptures in Performative Representation of Israeli-Palestinian Encounters.” Performance Research 19.6: 54-63.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2013. “In Search of the Author’s Voice: 'The Strindberg Project', a Performance by the Cullberg Ballet.” European Stages 1.1: 101-105.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2009. “Envoicing the Future: Victoria Hanna’s Exterior Voice.” Theatre Research International, 34:159-165.
Drama Translations
Yankowitz, Susan. "Night Sky". In A Stage of Their Own: Seven American Feminist Plays. Eds. Abeliovich Ruthie, Linda Ben-Zvi, and Sharon Aronson-Lehavi. Tel Aviv University press: Assaph, 2015. (Hebrew)
Academic Textbook
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2012. Gender and Feminism in Modern Theatre: Advanced course Study Guide. Raanana: The Open University of Israel Press. (Hebrew)
Book Reviews
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2021. “The Stage as A Temporary Home: The Theatre of Dzigen and Shumacher by Diego Rotman.” Gal-Ed: On the History and Culture of Polish Jewry. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2020. “On Guilt and Ghosts: Grzegorz Niziołek, The Polish Theatre and the Holocaust (London and New York: Methuen Drama Press, 2019).” Pamiętnik Teatralny, 69(4), s. 161-170. doi: 10.36744/pt.567
Blog entries, Performance Reviews and other writings (Non-Academic)
Abeliovich, Ruthie. 2023. “Performance As Knowledge: The Datafication of Yiddish Popular Theatre.” CAS Blog.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2022. “The DYBBUK Model: A New Yiddish Handwriting Text Recognition Tool.” In geveb (February 2022).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2021. Between Two Worlds. Afn Shvel No. 40-43. (Yiddish).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2021. A Review of Nurith Aviv’s New film ‘Yiddish’. Afn Shvel No. 388-390. (Yiddish).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2019. Impressions from DIVER dance festival. Dance Now 35. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2013. A World without Privacy: On Iphigenia by Gadi Roll. Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 36. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2013. The Transition from Reality Principle to Fantasy: on Lucas Berfus' Play The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents Directed By Gad Kaynar. Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 35. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2011. Adam Geist: The Breakdown of Inner Walls and the Borders That Ascend from Within. Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 30. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2011. There Is No Other Place: Reflections on Revisorand Three Sistersby "Gesher" Theatre.Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 30. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2010. He Who Says Yes. He Who Says No by the Ruth Kanner Group. Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 28. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2010. Politicizing The Un-Political: On The Short-Play Festival in Tzavta. Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 28. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2009. The Theatrical Language of Post-Trauma: Reflections on "Between Calendars: The Chamber Version" By Naomi Yoeli. Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol 25. (Hebrew).
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2009. On the Invisible Nature of "the Real": Reflections on 'The Contention of Don Quixote' by Ofira Henig. Teatron - An Israeli Quarterly for Contemporary Theatre, Vol. 24. (Hebrew).