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Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces. Memory/Place

Program Accompanying the Exhibition Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES (video recording available, in German with English subtitles)

Students in a Talmud class look at texts or at each other while a white dove flies in the foreground of the picture

From the photographic essay ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES by Frédéric Brenner; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with the support of the Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

The first event in the “Hevrutah” (“Friendship”) series is on the topic of “Memory/Place.” Using works by Barbara Honigmann, Pierre Nora and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Yemima Hadad, Netanel Olhoeft, Dekel Peretz, and Barbara Steiner, together with participants from the audience, will discuss what a ‘memory of place’ is, how places are shaped by memory, and how the memory of places captures the imagination of the people living in them. The “Hevrutah” will be moderated by Daniel Schönpflug.

recording available

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The Old Building is marked in green

Where

Old Building, ground level, Glass Courtyard
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

Video recording from 6 Oct 2021, in German with English subtitles; Jewish Museum Berlin 2021

At the center of the program accompanying Frédéric Brenner’s exhibition is the practice of “Hevrutah” (“friendship”), a gathering for the purpose of shared learning. We invite the exhibition’s cast and the public to come together over a text, to read it and discuss it.

Panelists

  • Yemima Hadad is a member of the academic staff and a doctoral candidate at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam.
  • Netanel Olhoeft is a member of the academic staff in the faculty of Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam. In 2020, he was ordained as a rabbi by the Zacharias Frankel College Berlin/Potsdam.
  • Dekel Peretz is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology of the University of Heidelberg and a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He is also head of the Jüdisches Zentrum Synagoge Fraenkelufer (Jewish Community Center Fraenkelufer Synagogue) society.
  • Daniel Schönpflug is Professor of Modern History at the Free University Berlin and Academic Coordinator at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study) Berlin.
  • Barbara Steiner works as a therapist and academic author in Berlin.
Photography of a person alone on one of the red seats in the audience of an empty theater, resting his head in his hands

From the photographic essay ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES by Frédéric Brenner; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with the support of the Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Person alone on one of the red seats in the auditorium of an empty theater, head resting in hands

Exhibition Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: Features & Programs

Exhibition Webpage
Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: 3 Sep 2021 to 24 Apr 2022
Publications
Frédéric Brenner: ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES: 2021, publication accompanying the exhibition
Accompanying Events
Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces: Invitation to learn together
See also
Frédéric Brenner, photographer
Digital Content
Without the Leaves, I Would Not Have Started: Essay by Frédéric Brenner on ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES, 2021
Staging Jewishness: Video recording of the artist talk with Frédéric Brenner, 2022
ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES – The Subjects Pose with Their Portraits: Photos and interviews about Jewish life in Berlin, 2021/22
Current page: Hevrutah on Memory/Place: Video recording, with Yemima Hadad, Netanel Olhoeft, Dekel Peretz, and Barbara Steiner, 2021, in German with English subtitles
Hevrutah on Otherness/Responsibility: Video recording, with Liad Hussein Kantorowicz, Benyamin Reich, Irene Runge, and Adam Joachim Goldmann, 2021, in German with English subtitles
Hevrutah on Homeland/Diaspora: Video recording, with Akiva Weingarten, Sonia Simmenauer, Elad Lapidot, and Aviva Ronnefeld, 2022, in German with English subtitles

Where, when, what?

  • When6 Oct 2021
  • Where Old Building, ground level, Glass Courtyard
    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
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