By Dr. Eli Sperling Representative of a greater resurgence of Judeo-Arabic music in Israel, the piyyut movement is continuing to spread throughout religious and secular segments of Israeli culture and society. Piyyut, the Hebrew word…
Upon its inception, Zionism needed more than political and financial solutions to actualize a Jewish home in Palestine. The architects of the Zionist enterprise evolved a cultural identity along with state structures. Its dynamism is still evolving from the diversity of its populations’ origins. see also his excellent Development of Israeli Culture (2018).
“Israeli Society and Politics” HIST 385 – junior/senior lecture Spring 2012 Semester – Yaron Ayalon View Syllabus The State of Israel was founded in 1948. For Jews, it was the fulfillment of a 2000-year long…
Building the State Before the State: Keren Hayesod Posters, 1942 Participation in community requires certain obligations and duties. Holocaust Memory in Israel Remembering without vengeance
Background/History of Hatikva The creation of State of Israel must be understood in the context of Jewish history Biblical Origins The choice to engage in the Brit (covenant) forms lasting attitudes toward our Jewish peoplehood,…
Israel Through Art Environment A. Geology of Israel influences artistic expression. B. Our homes have emotional connections which influence artistic expression. The Ethiopian Immigrant Experience The journey from Ethiopia to Israel was difficult and dangerous.
Background/History of Hatikva The creation of State of Israel must be understood in the context of Jewish history Building the State Before the State: Keren Hayseed Posters, 1942 Participation in community requires certain obligations and…
Israeli Society and Politics”HIST 385 – junior/senior lectureSpring 2012 Semester – Yaron AyalonView SyllabusThe State of Israel was founded in 1948. For Jews, it was the fulfillment of a 2000-year long dream to return to…
Background/History of HatikvaThe creation of the State of Israel must be understood in the context of Jewish history Building the State Before the State: Keren Hayseed Posters, 1942Participation in community requires certain obligations and duties….
This carefully staged photograph by Adi Nes (b.1966) references Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Last Supper. These soldiers, caught in the vortex of a conflict over which they have no control, put their lives on the…
Naftali Bezem (1924-2018) won the Dizengoff Prize for this work, now housed at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He painted it in response to the murder of citizens living in Kfar Kassem in the…
Israel’s first Holocaust memorial stands at Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek, associated with one of the youth movements that led the resistance in the Warsaw ghetto. The kibbutz members built the monument themselves under the guidance of…
One of the first departments Boris Schatz (1866-1932) created at Bezalel was rug weaving. This rug, part of the collection of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, typifies that production with its unique design and…
Boris Schatz (1866-1932) is the father of Israeli art. Lithuanian born, he studied in Paris and was influenced by the Russian Jewish sculptor Mark Antokolsky. The drama and strength with which Schatz depicts the father…
July 22, 1939 Gila Almagor, known as the “queen of the Israeli cinema and theater,” is born as Gila Alexandrowitz in Haifa four months after an Arab sniper killed her father, a policeman who immigrated…
June 23, 1944 Photojournalist Alex Levac, a 2005 winner of the Israel Prize, is born in Tel Aviv. A 1967 graduate of Tel Aviv University with a degree in philosophy and psychology, Levac completes his…
Known as one of the most cherished violinists of his generation, and one of the greatest Jewish musicians of all time, Bronislaw Huberman passed away at his home in Switzerland at the age of 64.
May 2, 1968 Israel’s first general-interest television network begins broadcasting at 9:30 a.m. with an image of a menorah, followed by an aerial view of Jerusalem and, at 9:40, the national Yom HaAtzmaut (Independence Day)…
November 6, 1987 Zohar Argov, a popular singer among the Mizrahi and Mediterranean communities in Israel who was known as the “The King” but was haunted by drug addiction, hangs himself in jail at age…
May 24, 1895 Marcel Janco, a founder of the Dada movement and a major influence on modern Israeli art, is born into a wealthy family outside the Jewish quarter of Bucharest, Romania. Trained at the…
December 18, 1947 Actress, singer and transgender-rights activist Gila Goldstein is born as Abraham Goldstein in Turin, Italy. Goldstein immigrates to Haifa as a child and is active with the Maccabi Haifa soccer club. Goldstein…
August 1, 2016 Andre Hajdu, a prolific composer and ethnomusicologist, dies at age 84 in Jerusalem. Hajdu was born in Hungary on March 5, 1932. After displaying an early aptitude for music and the arts,…
August 6, 2015 Stage and screen actress Orna Porat dies at age 91 in Tel Aviv. She was born Irene Klein, a German Christian, near Cologne in 1924. She turned toward atheism and socialism in…
September 19, 2014 Actor, screenwriter, director and producer Avraham Heffner dies at age 79 in Tel Aviv. He was born in Haifa in 1935 and served in the Nahal army band during his time in…
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