Filosemici z Poznania (Re: Skandalista ze Sztokholmu)
brat_olin
Polish exhibit is philo-Semitic
In Poland, floating art exhibit
is testament to Jewish history
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
ROME, Jan. 23 (JTA) A loating art installation by a Polish artist
in a former synagogue provides a dramatic counterpoint to the now
infamous installation in Stockholm about a Palestinian suicide bomber.
Israel s ambassador to Sweden made headlines last week by unplugging an
artwork that featured a portrait of Palestinian suicide bomber Hanadai
Jaradet floating in a white boat in a basin of blood-red water.
In the western Polish city of Poznan, however, artist Janusz Marciniak
made far different use of a symbolic watery backdrop for an installation
symbolizing Jewish loss, hope and renewal.
Marciniak shaped 600 burning memorial candles into a huge Star of David
and set it floating on the surface of the pool located in Poznan s former
synagogue.
Called Atlantis, the work was presented Jan. 15 during the annual Days
of Judaism initiative sponsored by the Roman Catholic church. The Poznan
ceremony was the central event among a number of related initiatives
around the country.
The glowing Star of David floated on the water, creating eerie shadows and
echoes in the darkened hall.
Some 600 people, most of them holding blue torch lights, crowded into the
once-grandiose structure that was turned into a swimming pool by the
Nazis.
Organizers ran out of torches and had to turn people away for lack of
space.
Catholic officials and Warsaw Rabbi Michael Schudrich gave speeches,
followed by a concert by the Poznan University Choir which included
Hatikvah, the Yiddish song Papirossen, the Eric Clapton song Tears in
Heaven and other pieces reflecting themes of hope, reconciliation and
peace.
At the end of the ceremony, Poznan s small Jewish community placed a
commemorative plaque on the synagogue wall.
It was really a fantastic atmosphere, which was enhanced by the wonderful
acoustics of the building, Marciniak told JTA by telephone. For me, it
was an unforgettable experience.
Marciniak, who is not Jewish, said he sought to convey a deeply symbolic
meaning by creating the star with yahrzeit candles and setting it adrift
in a building whose history reflects the tragedy of the Shoah.
Jews arrived in Poznan in the 14th century, if not earlier. The community
numbered about 1,500 on the eve of World War II. Today, there are a few
score Jews in the city.
The synagogue was built as a grandiose domed structure a century ago, when
Poznan was part of Germany. It was turned into a swimming pool by Nazi
occupiers, who sheared off the dome and eliminated Jewish symbols and
ornamentation.
Some 3.5 million Jews lived in Poland before World War II, of whom three
million were murdered in the Shoah. Under the post-war communist regime,
knowledge and discussion of Jewish history, culture and religion were
suppressed.
When taboos against investigating the Polish Jewish past began to be
lifted more than two decades ago, many Poles compared their discovery of
pre-war Jewish culture and history to the discovery of Atlantis, a
mythical sunken world.
Atlantis is the symbol of a destroyed civilization, like the destroyed
world of the Jews in Poland, Marciniak said.
The water in the pool built by the Nazis represented the attempt to drown
memory, he said.
The swimming pool in the synagogue isn t a metaphor but a fact,
Marciniak said. With my installation, I tried to create a moment of mood
and reflection. I was motivated by sympathy and ethics, not by ideology.
Marciniak, whose installation was accompanied by an exhibition of
paintings inspired by Jewish memory, also has written about the Jewish
experience in Poland.
He said his interest in dealing artistically with the memory of Polish
Jewry is rooted in his childhood, when he lived near the site of a
devastated Jewish cemetery.
I used to see bones in the sand there, he said.
Lena Stanley-Clamp, director of the London-based European Association for
Jewish Culture, said the idea of a reemerging Atlantis permeated
Jewish-themed art in former communist Europe.
We are talking about submerged Jewish culture, Stanley-Clamp, herself a
Polish-born Jew, told JTA by telephone.
We are seeing examples all over the region of efforts by artists like
Marciniak, who are inspired by submerged Jewish culture and employ memory
and exploration of this drowned world to create new art.
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mar...@poczta.onet.pl
> Polish exhibit is philo-Semitic
> In Poland, floating art exhibit
> is testament to Jewish history
> By Ruth Ellen Gruber
>
> ROME, Jan. 23 (JTA) A loating art installation by a Polish artist
> in a former synagogue provides a dramatic counterpoint to the now
> infamous installation in Stockholm about a Palestinian suicide bomber.
> Israel s ambassador to Sweden made headlines last week by unplugging an
> artwork that featured a portrait of Palestinian suicide bomber Hanadai
> Jaradet floating in a white boat in a basin of blood-red water.
>
> In the western Polish city of Poznan, however, artist Janusz Marciniak
> made far different use of a symbolic watery backdrop for an installation
> symbolizing Jewish loss, hope and renewal.
>
(..)
Eeee........tam w nikt o tym nawet nie wspomnial w kraju. Robia z byle czego
wielkie Halo za granica.
cezar...@chello.at
mar...@poczta.onet.pl schrieb in Nachricht
<4012A7CD...@poczta.onet.pl>...
:brat_olin wrote:
:
:> Polish exhibit is philo-Semitic
:> In Poland, floating art exhibit
:> is testament to Jewish history
:> By Ruth Ellen Gruber
:>
:> ROME, Jan. 23 (JTA) A loating art installation by a Polish artist
:> in a former synagogue provides a dramatic counterpoint to the now
:> infamous installation in Stockholm about a Palestinian suicide bomber.
:> artwork that featured a portrait of Palestinian suicide bomber Hanadai
:> Jaradet floating in a white boat in a basin of blood-red water.
:>
:> In the western Polish city of Poznan, however, artist Janusz Marciniak
:> made far different use of a symbolic watery backdrop for an installation
:> symbolizing Jewish loss, hope and renewal.
:>
:
:(..)
:
:Eeee........tam w nikt o tym nawet nie wspomnial w kraju. Robia z byle
czego
:wielkie Halo za granica.
A osobiscie n.p. pl.eszek!
(c) A. Rem
P.S. Boze, co to za jakas upierdliwa menda!
brat_olin
: Polish exhibit is philo-Semitic
: In Poland, floating art exhibit
: is testament to Jewish history
: By Ruth Ellen Gruber
Wiecej w temacie (choc podobny tytul):
In Poland, floating art exhibit
is testament to Jewish history
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
ROME, Jan. 25 (JTA) . A floating art installation by a Polish artist
in a former synagogue provides a dramatic counterpoint to the
now-infamous installation in Stockholm about a Palestinian suicide
bomber. Israel.s ambassador to Sweden made headlines earlier this month
by unplugging an artwork that featured a portrait of Palestinian suicide
bomber Hanadai Jaradet floating in a white boat in a basin of blood-red
water.
In the western Polish city of Poznan, however, artist Janusz Marciniak
made far different use of a symbolic watery backdrop for an installation
symbolizing Jewish loss, hope and renewal.
Marciniak shaped 600 burning memorial candles into a huge Star of David
and set it floating on the surface of the pool located in Poznan.s
former synagogue.
Called .Atlantis,. the work was presented Jan. 15 during the annual
.Days of Judaism. initiative sponsored by the Roman Catholic church. The
Poznan ceremony was the central event among a number of related
initiatives around the country.
The glowing Star of David floated on the water, creating eerie shadows
and echoes in the darkened hall.
Some 600 people, most of them holding blue torch lights, crowded into
the once-grandiose structure that was turned into a swimming pool by the
Nazis.
Organizers ran out of torches and had to turn people away for lack of
space.
Catholic officials and Warsaw Rabbi Michael Schudrich gave speeches,
followed by a concert by the Poznan University Choir which included
Hatikvah, the Yiddish song .Papirossen,. the Eric Clapton song .Tears in
Heaven. and other pieces reflecting hopeful themes.
At the end of the ceremony, Poznan.s small Jewish community placed a
commemorative plaque on the synagogue wall.
.It was really a fantastic atmosphere, which was enhanced by the wonderful
acoustics of the building,. Marciniak told JTA by telephone. .For me, it
was an unforgettable experience..
Marciniak, who is not Jewish, said he sought to convey a deeply symbolic
meaning by creating the star with yahrzeit candles and setting it adrift
in a building whose history reflects the tragedy of the Shoah.
Jews arrived in Poznan in the 14th century, if not earlier. The community
numbered about 1,500 on the eve of World War II. Today, there are several
dozen Jews in the city.
The synagogue was built as a grandiose domed structure a century ago, when
Poznan was part of Germany. It was turned into a swimming pool by Nazi
occupiers, who sheared off the dome and eliminated Jewish symbols and
ornamentation.
Some 3.5 million Jews lived in Poland before World War II . and 3 million
were murdered in the Holocaust. Under the postwar Communist regime,
knowledge and discussion of Jewish history, culture and religion were
suppressed.
When taboos against investigating the Polish Jewish past began to be
lifted more than two decades ago, many Poles compared their discovery of
prewar Jewish culture and history to the discovery of Atlantis, a mythical
sunken world.
Atlantis .is the symbol of a destroyed civilization, like the destroyed
world of the Jews in Poland,. Marciniak said.
The water in the pool built by the Nazis represented the attempt to drown
memory, he said.
.The swimming pool in the synagogue isn.t a metaphor but a fact,.
Marciniak said. .With my installation, I tried to create a moment of mood
and reflection. I was motivated by sympathy and ethics, not by ideology..
Marciniak, whose installation was accompanied by an exhibition of
paintings inspired by Jewish memory, also has written about the Jewish
experience in Poland.
He said his interest in dealing artistically with the memory of Polish
Jewry is rooted in his childhood, when he lived near the site of a
devastated Jewish cemetery.
.I used to see bones in the sand there,. he said.
Lena Stanley-Clamp, director of the London-based European Association for
Jewish Culture, said the idea of a re-emerging Atlantis permeated
Jewish-themed art in former Communist Europe.
.We are talking about submerged Jewish culture,. Stanley-Clamp, herself a
Polish-born Jew, told JTA by telephone.
.We are seeing examples all over the region of efforts by artists like
Marciniak, who are inspired by submerged Jewish culture and employ memory
and exploration of this drowned world to create new art..
Jerzy Pawlowski
brat_olin <les...@olav.home.com> wrote:
> Jews arrived in Poznan in the 14th century, if not
> earlier.
Mniej wiecej w tym samym czasie co plaga Czarnej
Smierci.
--
"Imbéciles réveillez vous!"
Jerzy Pawlowski (j...@panix.com)
Alexander Sharon
""Jerzy Pawlowski"" wrote
> brat_olin wrote:
>
> > Jews arrived in Poznan in the 14th century, if not
> > earlier.
>
> Mniej wiecej w tym samym czasie co plaga Czarnej
> Smierci.
Good show, Pawlowski
The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry St. Valentine's Day, February 14, 1349 -
About The Great Plague And The Burning Of The Jews
In the year 1349 there occurred the greatest epidemic that ever happened.
Death went from one end of the earth to the other, on that side and this
side of the sea, and it was greater among the Saracens than among the
Christians. In some lands everyone died so that no one was left. Ships were
also found on the sea laden with wares; the crew had all died and no one
guided the ship. The Bishop of Marseilles and priests and monks and more
than half of all the people there died with them. In other kingdoms and
cities so many people perished that it would be horrible to describe. The
pope at Avignon stopped all sessions of court, locked himself in a room,
allowed no one to approach him and had a fire burning before him all the
time. [This last was probably intended as some sort of disinfectant.] And
from what this epidemic came, all wise teachers and physicians could only
say that it was God's will. And as the plague was now here, so was it in
other places, and lasted more than a whole year. This epidemic also came to
Strasbourg in the summer of the above mentioned year, and it is estimated
that about sixteen thousand people died.
In the matter of this plague the Jews throughout the world were reviled and
accused in all lands of having caused it through the poison which they are
said to have put into the water and the wells-that is what they were accused
of-and for this reason the Jews were burnt all the way from the
Mediterranean into Germany, but not in Avignon, for the pope protected them
there.
Nevertheless they tortured a number of Jews in Berne and Zofingen
[Switzerland] who then admitted that they had put poison into many wells,
and they also found the poison in the wells. Thereupon they burnt the Jews
in many towns and wrote of this affair to Strasbourg, Freiburg, and Basel in
order that they too should burn their Jews. But the leaders in these three
cities in whose hands the government lay did not believe that anything ought
to be done to the Jews. However in Basel the citizens marched to the
city-hall and compelled the council to take an oath that they would burn the
Jews, and that they would allow no Jew to enter the city for the next two
hundred years. Thereupon the Jews were arrested in all these places and a
conference was arranged to meet at Benfeld Alsace, February 8, 1349. The
Bishop of Strasbourg [Berthold II], all the feudal lords of Alsace, and
representatives of the three above mentioned cities came there. The deputies
of the city of Strasbourg were asked what they were going to do with their
Jews. Thev answered and said that they knew no evil of them. Then they asked
the Strasbourgers why they had closed the wells and put away the buckets,
and there was a great indignation and clamor against the deputies from
Strasbourg. So finally the Bishop and the lords and the Imperial Cities
agreed to do away with the Jews. The result was that they were burnt in many
cities, and wherever they were expelled they were caught by the peasants and
stabbed to death or drowned. . . .
[The town-council of Strasbourg which wanted to save the Jews was deposed on
the 9th-10th of February, and the new council gave in to the mob, who then
arrested the Jews on Friday, the 13th.]
THE JEWS ARE BURNT
On Saturday - that was St. Valentine's Day-they burnt the Jews on a wooden
platform in their cemetery. There were about two thousand people of them.
Those who wanted to baptize themselves were spared. [Some say that about a
thousand accepted baptism.] Many small children were taken out of the fire
and baptized against the will of their fathers and mothers. And everything
that was owed to the Jews was cancelled, and the Jews had to surrender all
pledges and notes that they had taken for debts. The council, however, took
the cash that the Jews possessed and divided it among the working-men
proportionately. The money was indeed the thing that killed the Jews. If
they had been poor and if the feudal lords had not been in debt to them,
they would not have been burnt. After this wealth was divided among the
artisans some gave their share to the Cathedral or to the Church on the
advice of their confessors.
Thus were the Jews burnt at Strasbourg, and in the same year in all the
cities of the Rhine, whether Free Cities or Imperial Cities or cities
belonging to the lords. In some towns they burnt the Jews after a trial, in
others, without a trial. In some cities the Jews themselves set fire to
their houses and cremated themselves.
THE JEWS RETURN TO STRASBOURG
It was decided in Strasbourg that no Jew should enter the city for a hundred
years, but before twenty years had passed, the council and magistrates
agreed that they ought to admit the Jews again into the city for twenty
years. And so the Jews came back again to Strasbourg in the year 1368 after
the birth of our Lord.
dupoglow
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Jerzy holds a PhD.
Ryszard S. Górski
> > > Jews arrived in Poznan in the 14th century, if not
> > > earlier.
> >
> > Mniej wiecej w tym samym czasie co plaga Czarnej
> > Smierci.
>
> Jerzy holds a PhD.
Zabraklo pokory ("humility", po lacinie) jesli fizyk wypowiada
sie na temat, w którym osoba kwalifikowana jest historyk.
Po lacinie takie zjawisko okresla sie "practicing without a licence".
--
Ryszard S. Górski
Jerzy Pawlowski
Alexander Sharon <a.sh...@shaw.ca> wrote:
>> Mniej wiecej w tym samym czasie co plaga Czarnej
>> Smierci.
>
> Good show, Pawlowski
Dziekuje. To oczywiscie miala byc prowokacja, ale
jednoczensie odniesienie do historii, wiec czekalem
czy ktos to zlapie.
> The Cremation of Strasbourg Jewry St. Valentine's
> Day, February 14, 1349
Na swoja obrone powiem tylko ze to moja malzonka
przymusza mnie do obchodzenia walentynek, wiec nie
mam wyboru.
Jerzy Pawlowski
Ryszard S. Górski <Ryszar...@att.net> wrote:
> Po lacinie takie zjawisko okresla sie "practicing
> without a licence".
Po angielsku, a po drugie, nie popelnilem bledu w
sztuce, wiec nie ponosze winy.
narciasz
Uzytkownik ""Jerzy Pawlowski"" <j...@panix.com> napisal w wiadomosci
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: Na swoja obrone powiem tylko ze to moja malzonka
: przymusza mnie do obchodzenia walentynek, wiec nie
: mam wyboru.
Podaj pelne dane tej kobiety. Wystapie o Jej beatyfikacje
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