Lecturers
STUDENT'S RESEARCH
The project of Natalya Zolotar
Ruth Schloss
Drawing lines between German heritage and Israeli cultural sphere
A case study Natalya Zolotar
The artist Ruth Schloss was born in Nuremberg, Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1937. Immigration from Germany in the 1930s brought with it a new cultural nuance to Palestine-Israel. The “Yekkes” (The German immigrants’ nickname) retained aspects of their former life and their German cultural identity. My research will explore: What are the affinities, the relations, and the influences of Cultural German Heritage on Schloss’s art? How much “Germany and Stuttgart” are in “Israel and Tel-Aviv”, and what can we learn about wandering of the cultural German ideas and heritage and their translation into Israeli cultural sphere?
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PHOTOS: The painter and illustrator Ruth Schloss (© All rights reserved to Shalom Bar Tal); Woman Cooking, 1950-1960 (?), Ink on paper, Private collection (© Estate of the artist); Self Portrait, 1990,Acrylic on canvas(© Estate of the artist)
STUDENT'S RESEARCH
The project of Natalya Zolotar
Ruth Schloss
Drawing lines between German heritage and Israeli cultural sphere
A case study Natalya Zolotar
The artist Ruth Schloss was born in Nuremberg, Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1937. Immigration from Germany in the 1930s brought with it a new cultural nuance to Palestine-Israel. The “Yekkes” (The German immigrants’ nickname) retained aspects of their former life and their German cultural identity. My research will explore: What are the affinities, the relations, and the influences of Cultural German Heritage on Schloss’s art? How much “Germany and Stuttgart” are in “Israel and Tel-Aviv”, and what can we learn about wandering of the cultural German ideas and heritage and their translation into Israeli cultural sphere?
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PHOTOS: The painter and illustrator Ruth Schloss (© All rights reserved to Shalom Bar Tal); Woman Cooking, 1950-1960 (?), Ink on paper, Private collection (© Estate of the artist); Self Portrait, 1990,Acrylic on canvas(© Estate of the artist)
STUDENT'S RESEARCH
The project of Natalya Zolotar
Ruth Schloss
Drawing lines between German heritage and Israeli cultural sphere
A case study Natalya Zolotar
The artist Ruth Schloss was born in Nuremberg, Germany and immigrated to Israel in 1937. Immigration from Germany in the 1930s brought with it a new cultural nuance to Palestine-Israel. The “Yekkes” (The German immigrants’ nickname) retained aspects of their former life and their German cultural identity. My research will explore: What are the affinities, the relations, and the influences of Cultural German Heritage on Schloss’s art? How much “Germany and Stuttgart” are in “Israel and Tel-Aviv”, and what can we learn about wandering of the cultural German ideas and heritage and their translation into Israeli cultural sphere?
Read more
PHOTOS: The painter and illustrator Ruth Schloss (© All rights reserved to Shalom Bar Tal); Woman Cooking, 1950-1960 (?), Ink on paper, Private collection (© Estate of the artist); Self Portrait, 1990,Acrylic on canvas(© Estate of the artist)
WORKSHOPS
In two workshops held in Germany and Israel, the students prepared the topics they wanted to work on in tandem: They were guided by the question: What exactly does "Shared Heritage" mean - and which variation of the concept is present in their own country?
CONFERENCES
Two conferences accompanied the project: To kick off the project, the conference "Conversing Embroideries" took place in Qasr al-Sir, Israel, in October 2019, focusing on the topic of Bedouin cultural heritage in the Negev desert. At the end of the Students' Lab in March 2021, the project organized its own conference: under the title "Shared and/or Contradictory Heritage?" six German and seven Israeli students presented their case studies and results at a virtual conference.
EXCURSIONS
The project envisaged two excursions to the partner country as part of the tandem and research work. In August 2021, the Israeli students traveled to Ludwigsburg to meet their German tandem partners, visit projects, and hold discussions with experts. In April and June 2022, the German students came to Tel Aviv, where they spent a week getting to know the country and its people.
PUBLICATION
Christiane Dätsch / Dalya Markovich (Hg.)
Sharing Cultural Heritage?
A Concept and its Varieties. Case Studies from Europe and Israel
The concept of shared cultural heritage is booming globally. Phenomena such as migration and digitalization, but also the quest for post-national identities as in Europe or multinational identities as in Israel, contribute to changing discourses of memory. The contributors illustrate contexts in which the concept of shared heritage can function as a response to such dynamizations. Using case studies from Germany and Israel, they explain different forms of cultural heritage such as architecture, monuments and memorials, archives, museums, theater, and intangible heritage. In doing so, they form a synopsis that critically weighs the opportunities and risks of the concept.
June 27, 2023, approx. 300 pp.
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6442-3
Scheduled for publication by June 27, 2023.
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/cat/index/sCategory/310030847/f/12320
