A. Ph.D. Dissertation
Voice-Identity-Presence: The Rhetorics of Ventriloquism in Contemporary Women’s Vocal Performance Art. Supervisor: Professor Freddie Rokem. Tel Aviv University, 2013.
B. Scientific Books (Refereed)
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2019. Possessed Voices: Aural Remains from Modernist Hebrew Theatre. Albany: State University of New York Press.
*2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award Finalist in the category of “Jews and the Arts: Music, Performance, and Visual.”
Reviews:
Edited Books and Special Journal Issues
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) 196 pages.
Abeliovich Ruthie and Edwin Seroussi (Eds.). 2019. Borderlines: Essays on artistic and conceptual practices of mapping places. Warsaw: De Gruyter Press.
C. Articles in Refereed Journals
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2009. “Envoicing the Future: Victoria Hanna’s Exterior Voice.” Theatre Research International, 34:159-165.
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. 2014. “The Occupying Spectator: Audio-Spatial Ruptures in Performative Representation of Israeli-Palestinian Encounters.” Performance Research 19.6: 54-63.
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. 2016. “Choreographing Violence in Archive, by Arkadi Zaides.” The Drama Review T229: 65-70.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2018. “Reconsidering Arnold Van Gennep’s Les Rites de Passage from the Perspective of ‘Performance Studies’.” Journal of Classical Sociology 18.4: 283-299.
Ruthie Abeliovich and T. Sofie Taubert. 2020. “Theatrical Vestiges: Material Remains and Theatre Historiography.” Theatre Research International 45.3:297-302.
Ruthie Abeliovich. 2020. “Work and Play: Performing Residues in Rolf Hochhuth’s The Representative (1964).” Theatre Research International 45.3: 326-331.
Ruthie Abeliovich. 2022. “Behind the Mask.” Dapim: Research in Literature, Vol. 23, 75-100. (Hebrew).
Ruthie Abeliovich. 2022. “The Yiddish Atlantic: Louis Zweibel and the Mediators of Yiddish Popular Theatre.” Judaic Slavic Journal. (In Russian)
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). https://ingeveb.org/articles/kol-nidre-and-the-making-of-the-jewish-theatre-audience
Ruthie Abeliovich and Yonatan Moss. 2023. “Sewing Mothers: Re-Envisioning Jewish-Christian Relations in Sholem Asch’s On a Carnival Night.” European Journal of Jewish Studies.
Ruthie Abeliovich and Ido Ramati. 2024. “Use this sound: Networked Ventriloquism on Yiddish TikTok.” New Media and Society.
Ruthie Abeliovich and Daniela Smolov Levy. 2025. “Cosmopolitan Connections and Immigrant Audiences: Reconsidering the Yiddish Operetta.” Journal of the American Musicological Society (JAMS) 78.2.
Ruthie Abeliovich and Ido Ramati. 2025. “Phonographic Theatricality: The Performativity of Human-Machine Vocality,” Convergences.
D. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books (Refereed)
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2017. “The voice of The Nation's Mother: Hanna Rovina as An Acoustic Icon.” In: Gad Kaynar, Dorit Yerushalmi and Shelly Zer-Zion (Eds.), Habima: New Studies on National Theatre. Tel Aviv: Resling. (Hebrew). pp. 317-336.
Abeliovich Ruthie. “Vocalic Borderlines and Theatrical Soundscapes: A Study of a Lamentation Recording from Habima’s Performance The Eternal Jew”. In: Ruthie Abeliovich and Edwin Seroussi (Eds.), Borderlines: Essays on artistic and conceptual practices of mapping places. Warsaw: Sciendo Press, 2019. pp. 208-220.
Abeliovich Ruthie. 2019. "Archived Voices: Attempting to Listen to the Theatrical Past." In: Joanna Robinson and Claire Cochrane (Eds.), The Methuen Drama Handbook of Theatre History and Historiography. London and New York: Bloomsbury Press. pp. 185-196.
Abeliovich Ruthie, Cabranes-Grant Leo, Soo Ryon Lee-Yoon. “Conversation: Difficulty, Complexity, Mess.” In: Tracy C. Davis and Paul Rae (Eds.), The Cambridge Methodological Guide to Theatre and Performance Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Abeliovich Ruthie. “The Times and Toils of Moyshe Hurwitz.” In: Berenika Szymanski-Dull and Lisa Skwirblies (Eds.), Theatre Migrants 1830-1918: Motivations, Trajectories, Challenges and Impacts. Routledge Press, 2025.
E. Other Scientific Publications.
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, vol. 27 (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.
Drama Translations: From English to Hebrew
Yankowitz Susan. 2015. "Night Sky." A Stage of Their Own: Seven American Feminist Plays. Eds. Abeliovich Ruthie, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, and Linda Ben-Zvi. Tel Aviv University press: Assaph. (Hebrew). pp. 115-154.
Academic Textbook
Abeliovich Ruthie, 2012. Gender and Feminism in Modern Theatre: Advanced Course Study Guide. Raanana: The Open University of Israel Press. (Hebrew).
