The first event in the “Hevrutah” (“Friendship”) series is on the topic of “Memory/Place.” Using works by Barbara Honigmann, Pierre Nora and Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Yemima Hadad, Netanel Olhoeft, Dekel Peretz, and Barbara Steiner, together with participants from the audience, will discuss what a ‘memory of place’ is, how places are shaped by memory, and how the memory of places captures the imagination of the people living in them. The “Hevrutah” will be moderated by Daniel Schönpflug.
video recording available, in German

Where
Old Building, ground level, Glass Courtyard
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
Video recording from 6 Oct 2021; Jewish Museum Berlin 2021
At the center of the program accompanying Frédéric Brenner’s exhibition is the practice of “Hevrutah” (“friendship”), a gathering for the purpose of shared learning. We invite the exhibition’s cast and the public to come together over a text, to read it and discuss it.
Panelists
- Yemima Hadad is a member of the academic staff and a doctoral candidate at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam.
- Netanel Olhoeft is a member of the academic staff in the faculty of Jewish Religious and Intellectual History at the School of Jewish Theology of the University of Potsdam. In 2020, he was ordained as a rabbi by the Zacharias Frankel College Berlin/Potsdam.
- Dekel Peretz is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Max-Weber-Institute of Sociology of the University of Heidelberg and a visiting researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He is also head of the Jüdisches Zentrum Synagoge Fraenkelufer (Jewish Community Center Fraenkelufer Synagogue) society.
- Daniel Schönpflug is Professor of Modern History at the Free University Berlin and Academic Coordinator at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute of Advanced Study) Berlin.
- Barbara Steiner works as a therapist and academic author in Berlin.

From the photographic essay ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES by Frédéric Brenner; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with the support of the Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
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Program Accompanying ZERHEILT: Hevrutah: Zerheilen – Healing to Pieces (4)