Cultural Program in September 2014
Press Invitation
Press Release, Mon 1 Sep 2014
We herewith invite you to the cultural program at the Jewish Museum Berlin in September 2014. We would like to especially draw your attention to the English lecture by Tim Grady on German-Jewish soldiers in the First World War on 3 September.
Program Accompanying the Exhibition: "The First World War in Jewish Memory"
3 July to 16 November
The First World War in Jewish Memory
One hundred thousand Jewish soldiers fought for Germany in the First World War, 12,000 of them died. Caught in conflict between belonging and exclusion, the First World War provides a central reference point for German-Jewish commemorative culture. Marking the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War One, the Jewish Museum Berlin shows a representative cross-section of the rich holdings on this subject from its collections.
Most of the objects – military documents, letters, photographs, diaries, medals – were given to the museum as private donations and are part of family bequests. The stories of the descendants and benefactors are part of the history of these objects. They testify to how participation in the First World War was remembered by emigrants and surviving families.
Location: Libeskind Builing, basement, Rafael Roth Learning Center
Admission: with the museum ticket
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3 September
Forgotten Soldiers? German Jews and the Legacies of the Great War
Lecture by Tim Grady
Public memory of the sacrifice of German-Jewish soldiers in the Great War has been gradually subsumed into the much greater catastrophe of the Holocaust. Tim Grady’s studies focus on the multifaceted ways in which these Jewish soldiers have been remembered and forgotten from 1914 through the Cold War. By examining Germany’s complex and continually evolving memory culture, Grady opens up a new approach to the study of Jewish and non-Jewish relations in the short 20th Century.
Tim Grady is an historian of modern European and German history at the University of Chester.
Location: Old Building, ground floor, Auditorium
Time: 7.30 pm
Admission: free
Reservations: tel. +49 (0)30 25993 488 or reservierung@jmberlin.de
The Cultural Summer Program 2014. "Israelis in Berlin"“
1 June to 21 September
There are currently several thousand people with an Israeli passport living in Berlin. Many of them are part of a very vivid scene covering all cultural sectors.
The Cultural Summer Program 2014 is dedicated to the "Iraelis in Berlin" in a musical and a literary event series – "Jazz in the Garden" and "Words beneath the Trees."
In these two series, the Jewish Museum Berlin presents the lively Israeli cultural scene in Berlin.
13 September
Words beneath the Trees
Galil Trio
Music and text with Noa Chorin (cello), Nur Ben-Shalom (clarinet), Daniel Seroussi (piano), and Oliver Brod (speaker)
An unusual musical journey through time from Vienna of the turn of the century to present-day Berlin with a few detours – the young soloist trio focusses on the music of Carl Goldmark and Carl Frühling as well as the works of Joachim Stutschewsky, who was born in the Ukraine and fled from Vienna to Palestine via Zurich. The Israeli Lior Navok, who now lives in Berlin, completes the trio of Jewish composers.
The children’s program includes t-shirt printing. The garden bar is open.
Location: Museum Garden
Time: 6 pm
Admission: free
21 September
Jazz in the Garden
Tal Balshai
Tal Balshai devotes a CD to the sound of the big city and the stories of ordinary people that live in it. Each song tells a piece of Berlin – be it the wind that whistles through the streets at night or the search for meaning that connects us all here. Thus a soundtrack of the city was created with all the cultures that meet here – New Berlin Songs. Tal Balshai presents his CD with six female singers at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
The children’s program includes baking Matzah bread in the clay oven.
Location: Museum Garden
Time: 11 am
Admission: free
Academy Program
9 September
The "Koscher Light" Generation. Young Russian-speaking Jews in Berlin
Reading and Discussion with Author Alina Gromova as Part of the Series "New German Stories"
Which role do urban spaces play for the identities of young, Russian-speaking Jewish immigrants living in Germany today? The ethnologist Alina Gromova accompanied 15 young adults for one year through their daily lives, following them to Jewish meeting places and parties, cafés and homes, synagogues and clubs. Where Jewish, Russian, German, Israeli and Muslim traditions meet, Jewish religion and symbolism are treated informally – the "kosher light" generation eludes the clear classification into ethnic and religious categories. The religion and tradition that they live follow the laws of urbanity and thus form a new understanding of what is Jewish.
Location: Academy Hall
Time: 7.30 pm
Admission: 5 €, reduced rate 3 euros
Visitor Registration: tel. +49 (0)30 25993 488 or reservierung@jmberlin.de
Jewish Culture Days 2014
11 September
With the naming of the new town square on Lindenstrasse, Berlin gains a monument commemorating the philosopher of the Enlightenment Moses Mendelssohn and his wife Fromet Gugenheim.
Mendelssohn’s willingness to enter dialog and his openness towards other denominations inspired his friend Lessing to create the title character "Nathan the Wise." His love marriage to the daughter of a merchant from Hamburg and their union as intellectual equals became a model for future generations.
The naming ceremony will be accompanied by the music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and a reading from the newly published book "Moses Mendelssohn. Freunde, Feinde & Familie" (Moses Mendelssohn. Friends, enemies, & family).
A cooperation with the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, the Jewish Culture Days, and the Hentrich & Hentrich Publishing House Berlin
Location: Square in front of the Jewish Museum Berlin Academy
Time: 5 pm
Admission: free
