Ruth Dayan

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Ruth Dajan at a reception in December 2014, with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin behind her

Ruth Dajan , née Ruth Schwartz (born March 6, 1917 in Haifa , Palestine , Ottoman Empire , † February 5, 2021 in Tel Aviv ) was an Israeli fashion designer and activist for political and social issues in her homeland.

Life

Ruth Schwartz was one of two daughters of the lawyer Zvi Schwartz and his wife Rachel, an immigrant family in Jerusalem from what is now Novoselyzja in western Ukraine and from the Moldovan capital Chișinău . When Ruth was two years old the family moved to England and when she was ten years old the family returned to Jerusalem. Her sister Reuma later married the future Air Force General and Israeli President Ezer Weizman , a nephew of the first Israeli President Chaim Weizmann .

As a seventeen year old trainee in agriculture in Nahalal, Ruth met Moshe Dajan ; in 1935 she married the future general and chief of staff as well as Israeli defense and foreign ministers . The couple moved to the moshav Nahalal east of Haifa. Three children were born there, the parliamentarian Jael Dajan , the writer Ehud Dajan and the actor and film director Assi Dajan (1945-2014), who died in 2014 . The Dajan couple separated in the early 1970s; In 1973 she processed the separation as a co-author in a biographical work.

After moving to Tzahala , today a district of Tel Aviv, Dajan founded the fashion label Maskit in 1954 , an establishment that strives for fashion while taking into account the various traditions of the new immigrants and maintaining the artistic skills of these groups. The fashion house still exists today and still combines modern design with Jewish traditions from different countries. Another aspect for the founder was the need to create jobs for the women of the newcomers. The company was closed in 1994 and re-established in 2013.

Dajan was committed to both women's rights and reconciliation between Israelis and Arabs. She founded the Arab-Jewish women's association Brit Bnei Shem / Ibnaa Sam . Dajan took care of new immigrants, the Bedouins of Israel, and in 1978 together with the Palestinian poet and nationalist Raymonda Tawil set up a grove of peace in the Jewish-Arab cooperative village of Newe Schalom (Arabic: Wahat as-Salam) . Tawil comes from an old Christian family in East Jerusalem and is the mother of Suha at-Tawil , the wife of the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat .

Ruth Dayan died in Tel Aviv in early February 2021 at the age of 103.

Prizes and awards

Publications

  • with Helga Dudman: Or Did I Dream the Dream? The Story of Ruth Dayan . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1973, ISBN 0-297765256 .
  • Crafts of Israel , with Wilburt Feinberg. Macmillan, New York City, USA, ISBN 0-900063-03-3 .
  • Lecture on National Crafts among the Israelis & Arabs. One Path to Peace . Anglo-Israel Association, ISBN 0-02-534420-X .

Web links

Commons : Ruth Dayan  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisabeth Hausen: Ruth Dajan died at the age of 103. In: Israel Network . February 5, 2021, accessed February 5, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b c Michael Thaidigsmann: Mourning for Ruth Dajan. In: juedische-allgemeine.de . February 5, 2021, accessed February 5, 2021 .
  3. ↑ Hans-Christian Rössler: Cover yourself to show yourself. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . June 23, 2014 .;
  4. ↑ Moshe Dayan's widow, Ruth Dayan, dies at 103. In: israelhayom.com . February 5, 2021, accessed February 5, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Dajan, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwartz, Ruth (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Israeli fashion designer and activist for political and social issues in her homeland
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Haifa , Palestine , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2021
Place of death Tel Aviv , Israel