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SUMMARY:Reconciling Identities:Marcel Janco and the Romanian Avant-Garde in the Interwar Years Presentation by Amelia Miholcafollowed by a conversation with Nicola Baird\, PhD\, London (UK)
DESCRIPTION:In her presentation\, Dr. Miholca will spotlight the artistic and historical significance of Marcel Janco and the Romanian avant-garde group during a period of tremendous creative experimentation and productivity\, when artists and writers merged their Jewish identity with the international identity they sought to foster through their network of dadaist and constructivist magazines. Janco\, alongside other Romanian-Jewish artists like M. H. Maxy\, Victor Brauner\, Mattis Teutsch\, and Benjamin Fondane\, wished to capitalize on the Dada movement initiated by Janco and Tristan Tzara—alongside Hugo Ball\, in Zurich\, 1916—with their own avant-garde movement in Bucharest that mainly emerged through magazines such as Contimporanul (1922-1932)\, 75HP (1924) and Integral (1925-1928). \nThe presentation will be followed by a conversation with Nicola Baird\, PhD. Introductory remarks by Sorina Stallard\, Director of DOR – Romanian Diaspora. \nImage above: Marcel Janco\, Cover of Puntea de Fildeş no. 1 (April 1925)\, Biblioteca Digitala a Bucurestilor\, www.digibuc.ro \n\nREGISTER HEREMarcel Janco\, Integral. no. 5 cover (July 1925)\, Biblioteca Digitala a Bucurestilor\, www.digibuc.ro \nMarcel Janco\, Cover of Contimporanul. no. 50-51 (December 1924)\, Biblioteca Digitala a Bucurestilor\, www.digibuc.ro \n\nUnique to the Romanian avant-garde\, several\, including Janco\, published in the magazine Puntea de Fildeş (1925-1926)\, which appeared in two issues in Romania on the occasion of the opening of the Jewish University in Jerusalem. The magazine comprises of poems\, essays\, and art by Romanian-Jewish writers and artists. Its first magazine cover features a constructivist print by Janco. The avant-garde artists’ work in Puntea de Fildeş demonstrates an aspiration to participate in Jewish intellectual communities in Romania and Palestine. \nAdditionally\, during the magazine Contimporanul’s decade-long run\, articles and illustrations\, including those representing oppressed figures\, voiced the avant-garde’s outrage and condemnation of the Romanian government’s treatment of Jews. Jewish artists and writers within the avant-garde felt alienated from a society that considered them foreigners in their own country. Because of this\, several avant-gardists\, among them Fondane\, went into exile in Paris in the 1920s. Janco remained in Bucharest until 1941\, when he emigrated to Palestine\, fleeing the impending Holocaust in Romania. \n\nMarcel Janco\, Cover of Puntea de Fildeş no. 1 (April 1925)\, Biblioteca Digitala a Bucurestilor\, www.digibuc.ro \nMarcel and Jules Janco\, Villa Floorplans\, Puntea de Fildes no. 2 (May 2\, 1926)\, Biblioteca Digitala a Bucurestilor\, www.digibuc.ro \n\nAmelia Miholca is an art historian specializing in 20th-century art\, with research interests in the production and reception of art from the periphery\, as well as issues of immigration and exile in art of the United States and Eastern Europe. She teaches at Arizona State University and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and currently splits her time between Charlotte\, NC and Romania. Her publications include “Dada in Romania: How Romanian Avant-Garde Magazines Celebrated Dada” in the volume From Janco to the 21st Century: Dada and Its Legacy; “Between Zurich and Romania: A Dada Exchange” in the volume Narratives Crossing Borders: Transcultural Perspectives Anthology; “Re-envisioning Cubism in Romanian Avant-Garde Magazines” in the Journal of Romanian Studies 3:1 (May 2021). She has also worked on sculptures of Constantin Brancusi and their association with the concept of primitivism. \nDr Nicola Baird is an independent art historian and curator affiliated with the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. She specializes in twentieth century and contemporary British and European art and cultural history and is also passionate about European émigré histories and cultures. Previous exhibitions have included Fred Uhlman (Burgh House and Hatton Gallery\, 2018)\, Czech Routes to Britain (Ben Uri Gallery\, 2019)\, Becoming Gustav Metzger (Ben Uri Gallery\, 2021)\, Knots: Jonny Briggs x Burgh House- Contemporary Interventions into an Historic House (Burgh House\, 2021-2022) and ‘The line is an unreal thing’: Dorothy Mead and Edna Mann (LSBU\, 2024). She is Section Editor for Open Cultural Studies and Editorial Assisant at The International Yearbook of Futurism Studies\, both published by De Gruyter. \nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.”\nIn collaboration with DOR – Romanian Diaspora and #CarteadeVineri (CDV). \nAbout DOR\nFounded in 2020\, DOR-Romanian Diaspora CIC is a UK-based association of Romanians who support and enhance the potential of Romanian communities in the UK by enabling opportunities for integration and continuing education. We deliver a broad range of physical and virtual projects encouraging cross-cultural conversations through community-focused creative and cultural activities.\n\n\n\nAbout CDV\nCartea de Vineri or Friday Book Club\, now in its fifth year\, promotes books by Romanian authors or books by authors of any nationality about Romania. Every week we post a book recommendation on Facebook\, Twitter and Instagram and once a month we host live (recorded) conversations with authors. Authors who have previously taken part in our series of live conversations include Howard Reich\, Valentina Glajar\, Bogdan Suceava\, Radu Vancu\, Oliver Jens Schmitt\, Dennis Deletant\, Tom Gallagher\, Anca Pârvulescu & Manuela Boatcă.\n\n\nDOR-Romanian Diaspora\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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LOCATION:ONLINE\, VA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Newish and Jewish from Europe:  Refugees\, Survivors and the Spread of Modernism Presentation by Samuel D. Gruber
DESCRIPTION:The architecture of the American Jewish community was transformed following World War II by émigré and refugee architects engaged to design synagogues and Jewish Community Centers. Eric Mendelsohn’s synagogues for St. Louis\, Cleveland and elsewhere are well known but the work of Fritz Nathan\, Mendelsohn’s German-Jewish contemporary\, is virtually forgotten. \nImage above: Hamden\, CT\, Mishkan Israel sanctuary\, photo S. Gruber\, 2011. Architects: Fritz Nathan and Bertram Bassuk\, Ark: Ben Shahn\, Stained Glass: Robert Pinart and Jean-Jacques Duval \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER HEREErich Mendelsohn\, sketch for Congregation Bnai Amoona\, St Louis\, MO \nErich Mendelsohn\, Model for Congregation Bnai Amoona\, St Louis\, MO \n\nNathan arrived in the United States in 1940 and designed synagogues\, teamed with émigré artists\, in the New York and New Haven metro areas. Both architects helped create the architectural language for Jewish institutional buildings that was adopted by American colleagues. We can now add the work of refugee architects David Moed of Antwerp (arrived 1939)\, and Norbert Troller from Brno who after surviving Terezin and Auschwitz came to America and designed scores of JCCs from the late 1940s through the early 1960s for small Jewish communities across America. Other Jewish refugees and survivors including German born but American educated Werner Seligman (1930-1998) and Benjamin Hirsch (1932-2018) also champion a modern aesthetic for synagogues and other buildings. \n\nFritz Nathan et.al\, Kol Ami\, White Plains\, NY\, photo S. Gruber\, 2014 \nFritz Nathan (Bingen am Rhein\, German Reich\, 1891 – 1960 New York City)\, Portrait Photo \n\nSamuel D. Gruber has been a leader in the documentation\, protection\, and preservation of historic Jewish sites worldwide for thirty years. He presently directs Gruber Heritage Global\, a cultural resource consulting firm and is president of the not-for-profit International Survey of Jewish Monuments. Dr. Gruber is an expert on Jewish art and architecture about which he writes and lectures frequently. He is author of American Synagogues: A Century of Architecture and Jewish Community (2003) and Synagogues (1999) and scores of published reports and articles. Since 2008\, he has written the blog Samuel Gruber’s Jewish Art and Monuments. In recent years Sam has curated several on-line exhibitions: Romaniote Memories for Queens College\, and Synagogues of the South for the College of Charleston\, for which he previously curated Life of the Synagogue. Beginning in 2021\, Sam is a planner and lead researcher on the Holocaust Memorial Monument Database project based at the Canter for Jewish Art at Hebrew University which is supported by the Claims Conference. \nSam was founding director of the Jewish Heritage Program of World Monuments Fund\, has consulted on cultural heritage projects for numerous organizations and institutions around the world.  He served as Research Director of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad from 1998 through 2008 for which he organized and published over a dozen countrywide surveys of historic sites and monuments of Jewish and other ethnic and religious minorities in Europe. \nSam received his BA in Medieval Studies from Princeton University\, his Ph.D. in Art and Architectural History from Columbia University and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Rome\, where he won the prestigious Rome Prize in Art History. \nThis event is part of the online series “Flight or Fight. stories of artists under repression.” \n\n\n\n\nNorbert Troller\, JCC\, Hazelton\, PA\, 1950 \nNorbert Troller (Brno 1896–1984 New York)\,  Self Portrait\, n.d. \n\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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SUMMARY:SAVE THE DATE!Understanding Past Realities of the Holocaust.Photography versus Art With Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller (Berlin) and Dr. Rachel Perry (Boston)UN Headquarters\, New York
DESCRIPTION:This event will bring together leading scholars to examine how visual media contribute to our understanding of the Holocaust. Berlin-based Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller and Boston-based Dr. Rachel Perry will interpret visual narratives that serve as both powerful and complex testimonies to lived experience. Through a detailed visual analysis\, they will examine what photographs and works of art reveal about the individuals and communities depicted\, as well as the embedded social dynamics and historical contexts. \nThe discussion will also address the interpretive challenges inherent in visual sources. What are the strengths and limitations of photography compared to artistic representation? How do intention\, perspective\, and medium influence what is shown—or left out? By examining both photographic and artistic documents\, the event invites participants to reflect on how visual culture contributes to our understanding of historical truth and memory and how it continues to shape today’s engagement with the past. \nThe event will enhance public and expert awareness of how visual media reveal lived experiences\, social dynamics\, and historical truth\, countering misinformation and supporting “Never Again” education in an era of AI-generated images and rising antisemitism. \nThe event is co-organized by The Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art and The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme. \nSponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations New York.\nAdditional support from 1014/space for ideas. \n\nPhoto credit: Christoph Kreutzmüller \n\nREGISTRATION LINK COMING SOON\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller is a Holocaust historian und curator. He co-leads the award-winning research and documentation project “Last Seen. Pictures of Nazi Deportations” at the Selma Stern Center for Jewish History\, Berlin\, Germany. From 2015 to 2019\, he served as a curator for the new permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum Berlin. Previously\, at Humboldt University (Berlin)\, he coordinated a widely acclaimed research project examining the fate of Jewish businesses in Berlin between 1930 and 1945. In his spare time\, he also serves as Chair of the NGO Active Museum of Fascism and Resistance in Berlin. His study Final Sale in Berlin: The Destruction of Jewish Commercial Activity\, 1930–1945 was published by Berghahn Books in 2015. His study Die fotografische Inszenierung des Verbrechens: Ein Album aus Auschwitz (co-authored with Tal Bruttmann and Stefan Hördler; Darmstadt: WBG\, 2019) is widely regarded as a “milestone” in the history of photography and will be published in English soon. In 2024\, Dr. Kreutzmüller participated in an online discussion\, “Photography as Resistance During the Holocaust” organized by the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme. \nDr. Rachel Perry is an art historian and curator specializing in the representation and remembrance of the Holocaust and Second World War in visual culture. She teaches in the Weiss-Livnat Graduate Program in Holocaust Studies at the University of Haifa\, Israel as well as in the “Holocaust and Human Rights” programme at Gratz College\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Dr. Perry is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Getty Foundation\, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, the Dedalus Foundation\, the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah\, the Yad Vashem Institute\, EHRI\, and CASVA. She is widely published. Her articles have appeared in several journals including Holocaust and Genocide Studies\, History and Memory\, Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History\, French Cultural Studies\, RIHA\, Ars Judaica\, and Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. She is currently a visiting scholar at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in Boston\, United States of America\, where she is working on a manuscript concerning early graphic narratives of the Holocaust.\n\n\nMs. Rachel Stern is the founding director of the Fritz Ascher Society for Persecuted\, Ostracized and Banned Art in New York. Born and educated in Germany\, Ms. Stern studied Art History and Economics at Georg-August-University in Göttingen. She immigrated to the United States in 1994\, wrote for the AUFBAU and worked in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has organized numerous exhibitions in Europe and the United States\, and has written and lectured extensively about Nazi era persecuted artists\, exile stories\, and culture of memory. Ms. Stern is a 2002 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a 2017 recipient of the Hans and Lea Grundig Prize. Ms. Stern serves on the board of the Fritz Ascher Stiftung at Stadtmuseum Berlin (Germany) and is a member of Aktives Museum Berlin. Among others\, she has served on the jury of the Congressional Art Competition New York and the Hans and Lea Grundig Prize\, and as a panelist for the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.\nDr. Christoph Kreutzmüller \nDr. Rachel Perry \nRachel Stern \n\nPlease donate generously to make programs like this possible. Thank you. \n\nThe Fritz Ascher Society is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 organization. Your donation is fully tax deductible. \nDONATE HERE
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SUMMARY:Cocktail Party Benefiting Fritz!
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