Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek

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Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (2020)

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (born 1954 ) is a Judaist and art scholar who works as a curator and consultant for museums. From 1993 to 2011 she was chief curator of the Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna . In public lectures and in her scientific work, Heimann-Jelinek deals with questions of the representation of Jewish art, history and identity. In 2018 she received the Franz Rosenzweig visiting professorship at the University of Kassel .

Life

education

Heimann-Jelinek studied German and literature from 1974 to 1976 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . She then completed a degree in Oriental Studies from 1977 to 1978 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . From 1978 she continued her studies in Jewish Studies , Oriental Studies and Art History at the University of Vienna . In 1984 she received her doctorate in the field of Jewish Studies and Art History at the University of Vienna.

job

From 1980 to 1985 Heimann-Jelinek worked on the research project Illustrated and Illuminated Hebrew Manuscripts . This project was led by Kurt Schubert and financed through the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research. In the summer months of 1982, 1983 and 1984 she worked at the Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt . She took on organizational tasks there and gave tours. From 1987 to 1988 she was a guest curator at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main .

From 1993 to 2011 Heimann-Jelinek was chief curator at the Jewish Museum Vienna . During this time she also worked as a part-time guest curator at the Spertus Museum in Chicago from 2004 to 2007 . She also took on the role of co-chair of the Judaica and Jewish Cultural Property working group in 2009 . This working group should prepare the Terezin Declaration of the wealth conference of the Holocaust era in Prague .

Heimann-Jelinek has been a freelance curator since 2011. From 2011 to 2013 she developed and directed the Keter program of the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe in Ukraine . Since 2014 she has been director of the Curatorial Education Program of the Association of European Jewish Museums. From 2014 to 2016 she was again a guest curator at the Jewish Museum Frankfurt.

In addition, Heimann-Jelinek held various teaching positions at the universities of Vienna, Heidelberg and Zurich from 1995 to 2017 . For the summer semester 2018 she was Franz Rosenzweig visiting professor at the University of Kassel. She has also led many training programs and workshops at various Jewish museums in Germany, Austria, London , Amsterdam , Budapest , Jerusalem , Izmir and Venice .

Exhibitions, lectures, consultancy work, memberships

From 1984 to 2018 Heimann-Jelinek organized more than 40 exhibitions on the topics of Judaism, Jewish art and culture. These exhibitions took place in various Jewish museums and synagogues in Germany, Austria, Hungary, New York , Chicago and Tel Aviv . Heimann-Jelinek was also invited to numerous conferences at home and abroad where she gave lectures on the topics of Judaism , Jewish art and culture . Heimann-Jelinek worked as a consultant and reviewer for various European Jewish museums. Heimann-Jelinek has been a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jüdisches Museum Hohenems / Vorarlberg since 2003 , an honorary member of the Association of European Jewish Museums since November 2012 and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Jewish Museum Franken, Fürth and Schnaittach since 2014 .

Works (selection)

  • What was left: the Museum of Jewish Antiquities in Frankfurt 1922-1938 , Frankfurt am Main, 1988
  • Spharadim - Spaniols. The Jews in Spain until 1492 - the Sephardic Diaspora together with Kurt Schubert, Austrian Jewish Museum, 1992, ISBN 978-3900907037
  • Teitelbaum lived here: a walk through Jewish Vienna in time and space / idea and conception , 1993, Vienna: Jewish Museum
  • The Frankfurt Passover - Haggadah. Facsimile and commentary volume together with Johannes Wachten, Propylaen Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3549066836
  • Shavua Tov! A good week! Jewish Towers from Schwäbisch Gmünd together with Monika Boosen, William L. Gross, Gabriele Holthuis, Annette Weber, Paul Spiegel, Museum und Galerie im Prediger Schwäbisch Gmünd, 2001, ISBN 978-3980729734
  • The Keter Program: Understanding and Caring for Judaica Collections in Ukrainian Museums together with Michaela Feurstein-Prasser, Vita Susak, Pavlo Hrytsak (translator), Mayhill C. Fowler (translator), Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe, 2012, ISBN 978-0957549104
  • The first Europeans: Habsburgs and other Jews together with Michaela Feuerstein-Prasser, Mandelbaum, 2014, ISBN 978-3854764397
  • The feminine side of God together with Michaela Feuerstein-Prasser, Bucher Verlag GmbH, 2017, ISBN 978-3990184066

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vita
  2. ↑ a b Kassel Rosenzweig Professorship goes to curator Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek at uni-kassel.de. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Vita Felicitas Heimann-Jelienk at xhibit.at. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  4. ^ Judaica in the State Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts at sztetl.org.pl. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Judaist and art scholar, curator and consultant for museums
DATE OF BIRTH 1954