Museum of German-speaking Judaism Tefen

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Museum of German-speaking Judaism
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Data
place Sderot ha-Ta'asiyya, Migdal Tefen, haZafon , Israel
Art
Cultural history museum
opening 1968
operator
The Open Museum Tefen
management
Ruthi Ofek
Website

The Museum of German-speaking Judaism ( Hebrew הַמּוּזֵיאוֹן לַיַּהֲדוּת דוֹבֶרֶת גֶּרְמָנִית, translit. : ha-Mūzey'ōn la-Yahadūt dōveret germanīt; also called Jeckes Museum) is a museum of the Tefen Industrial Park and is organized by the Open Museum Tefen (הַמּוּזֵיאוֹן הַפָּתוּחַ תֵּפֶן, translit .: ha-Mūzey'ōn ha-Patūach Tefen), to which other museums and exhibitions belong. The Jeckes Museum was founded in Nahariya in 1968 by Israel Shiloni (ישראל שילוני) and moved to Tefen in 1991. The industrial park Tefen forms under the name Migdal Tefen (מִגְדָּל תֵּפֶן) its own communal unit (מוֹעָצָה מְקוֹמִית תַּעֲשִׂיָּתִית, translit .: mō'atzah məqōmīt ta'asiyyatīt) between the places Karmi'el and Maʿalot-Tarshiha in Galilee in the northern district of Israel .

history

The museum emerged from the collection of the Nahariyan Ysrael Shiloni . Shiloni “was born in Berlin in 1901 under the name Hans Herbert Hammerstein and worked as a teacher in Germany in the 1930s. In 1934, under the rule of the National Socialists, he had built a Jewish elementary school in Bonn that worked according to reform pedagogical principles. During the Second World War he emigrated to Palestine. ”Shiloni collected historical material from his friends and well-known families in order to make the history of German-speaking immigrants to Israel comprehensible for posterity. A small exhibition was created from the archive in 1968, which was located in the premises of the municipality of Nahariya. In 1971 Shiloni came up with the idea of ​​building a museum “that documents the history of German-speaking Jewry and its contribution to the development of the state of Israel. Over the course of twenty years he amassed a considerable collection, which he presented in the small Israeli town of Nahariya under the name 'Museum Deutsches Judentum'. ”Ysrael Shiloni died in 1996 after he had given his museum to industrialist Stef Wertheimer in 1991 . He moved it to the Tefen industrial park east of Naharija, which he founded, and has been there ever since. In 2004 the museum and the Association of Israelis of Central European Origin (אִרְגּוּן יוֹצְאֵי מֶרְכָּז אֵירוֹפָּה, translit. Irgūn Yōtz'ey Merkaz Eyrōpah) signed a cooperation agreement. In 2005 the museum was reopened.

exhibition

History of the German-speaking Jews

Spread over an area of ​​400 m² over two floors, the museum's exhibition focuses on the diverse history of German-speaking Jews in Central Europe up to the Second World War and their contribution to the development, economy and culture of the area in which the Israeli state was later founded should, as well as Israel itself. Although the topic always resonates, it is deliberately not a Holocaust museum. An elevator is available.

There are interactive installations on various topics such as industry and trade, architecture, medicine, law and stage art. They convey these topics to the visitor visually using authentic photographs and film clips. By prior arrangement, films can be shown that were specially produced by the Open Museum and document the history of German-speaking immigrants to Israel.

Hermann Struck exhibition

Works by the Berlin-born painter and etcher Hermann Struck (1876–1944) are shown in the exhibition rooms . The exhibition focuses on his artistic activity during the years of his life in Haifa . It also shows materials from the artist's personal estate.

Original settler hut from the early days of Nahariya

A specialty of the museum is the original of a settler hut from the early days of Nahariya. Before it was transported to the museum after 2010, it had been in its old place since 1936. It is authentically furnished for the time of Nahariya's settlement with a bed, chest of drawers, old books and a simple shower device.

Hugo-Zwi Schatzman (1900–1976) and his wife Lea-Gertrud , b. Wallach (1906–1983) immigrated to Palestine from Germany in 1934. In preparation for their emigration, they joined the Blue-White League in the Jewish youth movement , which pursued the Zionist program of the Hachshara , where Hugo-Zvi trained as a carpenter and Lea-Gertrud as a hairdresser and nanny. Upon their arrival in Palestine, their group was sent to Kibbutz En Harod . In 1935 the couple moved to Nahariya and in 1936 they bought a plot of land on the corner of Weizmann and Chanitah (חֲנִיתָה) streets , on which they built two settler huts. The couple lived in the larger of the two huts, while using the smaller one as storage space. Over the years, the use of the huts has adapted to the needs of the owners. In 1946 the Schatzmans sold the plot to the Pisker family , who over time built a stone house along the huts. In 2010 the family sold the parcel. When a new building with apartments was to be erected there, older Naharijan people (especially the former glass manufacturer Andreas Meyer [1921–2016]) organized the preservation of the larger hut as a historical testimony to the settlers' days. The Israeli Society for the Preservation of Historical Heritage took on the project and transferred the hut to the museum in Tefen, where it has been available to visitors ever since.

Library

The museum's book collection now comprises more than 5000 volumes, mostly in German, which provide a comprehensive picture of the literary activities in the field of prose, poetry, philosophy, science and research on the Jews of Central Europe.

archive

The museum archive houses a wide variety of historical documents such as certificates, letters, photographs and numerous objects that were donated to the museum so that they can be preserved and used by scholars from Israel and abroad to continue their research into German-speaking Jewry. Researchers with other interests, such as art history , will also find interesting material in the archive.

opening hours

The museum is closed on Sundays and Fridays. It is open to visitors from Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturdays and on public holidays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Sophie Buchholz: Hans Herbert Hammerstein / Yisrael Shiloni , p. 3
  2. ↑ a b c d e f http://www.omuseums.org.il/eng/mmty_about/About_the_Museum
  3. ^ A b c d e f g The Museum of German-speaking Judaism, center of the cultural heritage of the Jeckes. irgun-jeckes.org, accessed July 30, 2017 .
  4. ↑ a b http://www.omuseums.org.il/eng/mmty_shed/The_Shack_from_Nahariya
  5. ↑ http://www.omuseums.org.il/eng/mmty_Archive/Archives
  6. ↑ http://www.omuseums.org.il/eng/mmtvi_hour/Opening_Hours

Coordinates: 32 ° 58 ′ 46.2 "  N , 35 ° 16 ′ 27.7"  E