RISE: The Rock Musical

RISE is a rock musical about a group of Jewish women resistance fighters during the Holocaust who organize and wage an uprising against the Nazi regime. The show is based on the true stories of the Kashariyot, or couriers, young Jewish women who disguised themselves as Aryan and traveled through Nazi territory, smuggling food, messages, and weapons to the underground resistance movements throughout occupied Europe. RISE won the Israeli Bela Zarhi Prize, was showcased by the Alliance for Jewish Theatre, was a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Music Theatre Conference, was produced in full in Rochester and Syracuse, New York where Broadway World called it “a daring and important new musical” with a “superb score,” and was performed in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in the aftermath of October 7th. More info at www.risetherockmusical.com.

Joshua Daniel Hershfield is the American/Canadian/Israeli writer, composer, and lyricist of RISE. He studied at Antioch College, Berklee College of Music, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, before earning a Master’s degree in Holocaust Studies from Haifa University where he was an Azrieli Foundation scholar.

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