Throughout her adult life, her writing attests to her increasing commitment to pacifism and nonviolence. Since the start of The Living Theatre in 1947, her diaries are a crucial primary source for documenting her life and that of the company, as well as cataloguing her sharp observations of culture, art, and politics. with her family in 1929, and her earliest diaries record her impressions of growing up in New York-a life of school, errands, museums, and plays. Born in Kiel, Germany, Malina immigrated to the U.S. Activist, director, actor, and poet Judith Malina (1926–2015), co-founder and director with Julian Beck of The Living Theatre, meticulously detailed her every day in diaries that she kept from her childhood until her final months.
