A Time Machine Made of Glass – E.M. Lilien’s View of the Hebrew Orient in Moses (Design for a Glass Window)
Part of the Lecture Series The Imagined Orient (Part 4, video recording available, in German)
In the fourth lecture of our series, JMB curator Shelley Harten takes us through Jewish Galician artist Ephraim Moses Lilien’s visions of a future Hebrew Orient.
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Video recording from 23 Jan 2024; Jewish Museum Berlin, in German
Harten uses Lilien’s drawing Moses (Design for a Glass Window), from the JMB collection, to travel through time to multiple destinations. The journey begins in 1904, the year the drawing was created, then jumps back in time to the mythological and biblical past as imagined by E.M. Lilien, and after a stopping off in the early 20th century for the founding of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, concludes with the hope for a Hebrew Orient.
Dr. Shelley Harten is the Curator for Contemporary and Modern Art and History at the Jewish Museum Berlin. She has curated such exhibitions as Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres (2023), Maya Schweizer: Sans Histoire (2023), Paris Magnétique. 1905–1940 (2023) and Yael Bartana – Redemption Now (2021). For the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, she curated the Israeli pavilion, putting together Queendom, an exhibition featuring the work of Ilit Azoulay.
Shelley Harten; photo: Yael Bartana
Lecture Series The Imagined Orient
- Lecture Series The Imagined Orient: Information on the event series
- Digital Content
- “Orient” – A Magic Word? On the German-Jewish History of a Term: Lecture with Kathrin Wittler, video recording from 9 Oct 2023, in German
- Approaching the “Orient” through pictures – the Life and Work of Jewish photographer Hermann Burchardt: Lecture with Stefan Litt, video recording from 8 Nov 2023, in German
- From Yeshiva to Cairo: How Gustav Weil became a Pioneer in the Study of the Qur’an: Lecture with Susannah Heschel, video recording from 13 Dec 2023
- Current page: A Time Machine Made of Glass – E.M. Lilien’s View of the Hebrew Orient in Moses (Design for a Glass Window): Lecture with Shelley Harten, video recording from 23 Jan 2024
- Events
- The Dream of a Jewish-Arab Orient: Writer M.Y. Ben-Gavriêl: Lecture with Sebastian Schirrmeister, 14 Feb 2024
- The Unorthodox, Israel 2018: A feature film about the founding of the Shas Party: Film screening and discussion with Omar Kamil and Daniel Wildmann, 6 Mar 2024
- See also
- The W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin: A Platform and Laboratory for Diverse Perspectives
