tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post8291661782457699951..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Herzl Museum Jerusalem: new museologyHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-37060283377262660962010-07-30T22:17:35.361+10:002010-07-30T22:17:35.361+10:00its a great pleasure to listen about museum.This m...its a great pleasure to listen about museum.This museum looking really interesting and I would love to visit it one day. When I went to the Ellis Island exhibit, it was similar in that you walked into rooms where scenes had been laid out and the whole thing was quite interactive on a number of levels. It is not the same, obviously, but I think people would find it quite engaging.home improvementhttp://www.weplan.com.aunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-15843318064764875002010-07-29T00:32:15.786+10:002010-07-29T00:32:15.786+10:00That is a great idea with the passenger name!!! I...That is a <i>great</i> idea with the passenger name!!! I must say, I found the exhibit in Liverpool to be quite chilling. I stood for hours looking at an apron / pinafore that someone had been wearing and I could just about imagine it in the icy ocean waters.Mandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931248631361366673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-33355737307112805232010-07-29T00:17:16.330+10:002010-07-29T00:17:16.330+10:00Emm, I think it IS a good comparison. Museums have...Emm, I think it IS a good comparison. Museums have often been static displays of objects that people could look at, but not necessarily engage with. <br /><br />The new Herzl Museum, the Ellis Island exhibition and the Titanic Exhibition on in Melbourne at this very moment are successful attempts to immerse the modern viewer in long gone experiences. As the visitor enters the Titanic Exhibition, he is given the name of a real passenger. Only at the very end of the experience does the visitor discover whether his character survived or drowned.<br /><br />Hels<br />http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.com/2010/05/titanic-and-liverpool.htmlHelshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-11501986270309409932010-07-28T23:53:54.066+10:002010-07-28T23:53:54.066+10:00Hels, I love your posts on Jewish history as they ...Hels, I love your posts on Jewish history as they are always so fascinating and I always learn something new. I had friends who went to Herzlia school in Cape Town - now I know where the name came from.<br /><br />This museum looking really interesting and I would love to visit it one day. When I went to the Ellis Island exhibit, it was similar in that you walked into rooms where scenes had been laid out and the whole thing was quite interactive on a number of levels. It is not the same, obviously, but I think people would find it quite engaging.Mandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931248631361366673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-68508172584047917842010-07-22T20:39:25.535+10:002010-07-22T20:39:25.535+10:00This is really interesting read about museum.
work...This is really interesting read about museum.<br /><a href="http://www.czarnovel.com/" rel="nofollow">work from home</a>Stela Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10953767385585248513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-75806247248408662872010-07-20T02:00:47.329+10:002010-07-20T02:00:47.329+10:00Yes,about Bernhardt. But it doesn't matter to ...Yes,about Bernhardt. But it doesn't matter to anti-Semites if someone has converted, as you know. <br /><br />The SS command at Auschwitz faced a bureaucratic quandary as the Allies were making their (difficult) way across France towards Berlin & beyond. Should they move my great-grandfather from the political prisoner block to the Jewish block? What to do? Seriously.<br /><br />This was a matter for memoranda & meeting minutes. He had one Jewish grandparent. <br /><br />The idea that a relatively low-level Resistance member's camp block "assignment" would be a matter of discussion, much less bureaucratic dithering, would be hilarious if not so tragic. It is funny on an absurdist level.<br /><br />It's also difficult to fathom on a purely existential basis--as in those officers & their existence. "We must have a meeting about this most important matter, though the Allies are gaining on us." Shows you the extremity & bizarre nature of anti-Semitism & the "blood" matter business. To me, it seems a psychosis.<br /><br />(In the end, they left him in the political prisoner block at Auschwitz. I never met him, so that tells you his ending.)<br /><br />Irène Némirovsky, for instance, knew all about this "blood" business. I admire her writing but I do see the anti-Semitism. You probably know this, but the introduction in the French edition of Suite Française that refers to her as a self-hating Jew was cut in the English/American editions. Claiming convert status did not save her, sadly.<br /><br />Well, I've taken up too much of your time & am now running behind. I enjoy your blog very much.<br /><br />Cheers.Giuliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06569643363733791671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-65714660733419819342010-07-20T01:22:29.632+10:002010-07-20T01:22:29.632+10:00Many thanks Giulia.
Perhaps the most internationa...Many thanks Giulia.<br /><br />Perhaps the most international person in the world was Sarah Bernhardt. She was French and European of course, but was very comfortable all over the world. Yet when the Dreyfus trials and imprisonments dragged on, Sarah Bernhardt had to face virulent anti-Semitism in her own career. <br /><br />The irony was... Bernhardt had converted to Catholicism years and years earlier, so she wasn't even Jewish.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-12915112750953444502010-07-20T01:13:43.294+10:002010-07-20T01:13:43.294+10:00"I think educated, cultivated Jewish European..."I think educated, cultivated Jewish Europeans believed they were part of general European culture... until they found out they were not!"<br /><br />No doubt about it. You can find this everywhere in letters, diaries, & so forth. <br /><br />Thanks for the post. I went to school & lived in (Strasbourg) France from 17-19 years old (too long ago to say) & then Jerusalem in the mid-80s, also at university.(As a non-Jew, so that was it's own interesting experience, I can say -- anecdotally -- that I knew more about this than most Jewish students. It was shocking & disheartening). It pains me still how little people know about the earlier history in Europe & Herzl's journey. (Pissaro was a good example to use.)<br /><br />Excellent post. Thanks.Giuliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06569643363733791671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-81483394478248777992010-07-19T17:35:57.564+10:002010-07-19T17:35:57.564+10:00Hermes, nod.. very true.
Another great example. ...Hermes, nod.. very true. <br /><br />Another great example. Pissarro had given his all to the French art world, supported and acted as father to all the young impressionists, wrote art theory books, organised the Salon des Refusés etc etc yet he too was devastated by the Dreyfus travesty of justice. I think educated, cultivated Jewish Europeans believed they were part of general European culture... until they found out they were not!Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-27395959925403003492010-07-19T17:10:17.902+10:002010-07-19T17:10:17.902+10:00I'd heard of him but never read further. The D...I'd heard of him but never read further. The Dreyfus case was a turning point for many intelligent Jews of the time, a terrible hint of what was to come.Hermeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968366076064269729noreply@blogger.com