German – Jewish – Israeli? Jews in Germany and their relationship to Israel

We will explore this multi-layered relationship with the students by visiting four different areas of the core exhibition: 

1. A visit to the art installation Schalechet will serve as a starting point to reflect on whether and how far the workshop theme impacts on the students’ own lives. The artist Menashe Kadishman dedicated his walk-in sculpture, consisting of over 10,000 steel faces, to all innocent victims of war and violence.
2. In the epoch room After 1945, we will trace the history of relations between Germany and Israel and consider the question: What is it like for Jews in Germany to be entangled in the fate of two states and their deeply scarred relationship?
3. The room entitled The Jewish Object focuses on the Torah and a selection of Jewish holidays as basis of the Jewish diaspora. What is sacred to Jews in the diaspora and what role does the state of Israel play in this context?
4. The segment Another Country shows how Zionism emerged as a Jewish national movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The complex content of the workshops is delivered in a sensitive and age-appropriate way, using guided object studies with small group work, movement exercises, and independent exploration phases.