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?


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?


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?


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
Shared Heritage in classical music? The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
A case study by Kai Erdlenbruch
My project focuses on classical music in a shared and /or contradictory heritage. The research topic is the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded in 1999 by the Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim, the Palestinian researcher Edward Said and Bernd Kauffmann who was the general representative of the Weimar 1999 - Cultural Capital of Europe GmbH in the city of Weimar.
The orchestra is made up of Israeli, Arab and European musicians, who give concerts all over the world. The founders’ approach is both aesthetic and political, although the orchestra is often described as apolitical. What shared narratives bring the musicians together and what keeps them apart? It is about history, about conflicts, about possibilities of dialogue and about the (controversial) role music plays in the search for solutions for peace.
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PHOTOS: The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra - Barenboim 2020: Daniel Barenboim (conductor) and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the Salzburg Festival 2020 (source and copyright: Salzburger Festspiele / Marco Borrelli (4)) / Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said in 2002 in Sevilla (source and copyright: Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH (1))