Holocaust Theatre On Line Collection
E-culture and heritage
a project of All About Jewish Theatre,
Presentation at the Digital Heritage Conference in Jerusalem
15-17 November, 2011
Mark Ejlenberg, Chairman, All About Jewish Theatre
Summary
o Outline of the project
o Why we choose Holocaust Theatre as our focus
o The concept of “Kitchen feeding Many Restaurants”
o Europeana Judaica ,listed objectives and comparison
o The power of distribution/ channel network
o Jewish E-culture - From data to knowledge
o Call for pilot
o Last but not least- Funding.
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About Us
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All About Jewish Theatre:
o Part of the International Institute For Jewish and
Israeli Culture
o Initiated and developed by Moti Sandak in 2002
o Jewish culture accessible on line
o the world’s only global on line network dedicated to
Jewish theatre and performing arts
o Google’s first reference for the search term “Jewish
theatre” out of 4.200.000 search results
o 20 prominent editorial board members
o 18 correspondents world wide.
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About Us
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o Online Knowledge Bank: more than 10.000 original entries
on: plays, books ,films,, academic articles web links etc
o Our Target Audience :
o B2B or P2P: such as theatre directors, playwrights,
museum professionals, scholars , Jewish communities
worldwide,
o P2C: any person with an interest to Jewish theatre
and performing arts.
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Collection list: All About Jewish Theatre
1. The Pioneers: such as Ezekiel, Yehuda Sommo, Fernando
de Rojas
2. Purimshpiel, Badchanim and Klezmorim
3. Goldfaden and the flourishing Yiddish theatre in Europe
4. From the Shtetl to Broadway
5. Sparks of Jewish theatre in Arab countries
6. Israeli/ Hebrew theatre
7. Biblical theatre and music
8. Habimah Theatre
9. Ladino theatre
10.The Holocaust Theatre On line Collection
(HTC)
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Despite unspeakably difficult circumstances,
Jewish actors, singers, musicians, dancers,
filmmakers and others artists
regularly performed in the Nazi’s ghettos and
concentration camps.
Their remarkable creative output was
a triumph of the human spirit
over barbarism.
Creativity can not be destroyed
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How to engage the Next Generation ?
Who will “Carry the Word”?
oGeneration of Survivors will retire and their
spirit needs to be perpetuated.
oPerforming Arts of the Shoa has the caliber to
take over.
oShoa Education and Remembrance
o a new era,
o a new level
o a global audience
o a focused approach to engage the Next
Generation.
o The On- Line Generation of
linked data
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The Holocaust Theatre On line Collection (HTC)
1. On Line Knowledge Bank/ Virtual Museum
o a uniquely accessible teaching tool that will
educate a new generation about a little-known
aspect of the Holocaust.
o from one location,abundant material related to
the Holocaust Theatre.
o a tool for the conservation of performance arts
before, during and after the Holocaust.
o 28 major themes, according to 5 time zones
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5 Quick overview of HTC
5 time zones
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From data to .............
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5 knowledge
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Example of combining data into a collection for education
Film: Paradise
Art: Film & Reality
History: Textual
Producer: Kurt Gerron
The collection of
individual items forms
an educational
package.
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The Holocaust Theatre On line Collection (HTC)
2. Education & Remembrance, Next Generation
o educational vehicle for conveying the memory
to future generations through the eyes of the
Art and related curriculum from young age and
up.
o Perpetuates the spirit of the Survivors when
they retire.
o Engages the Next Generation by bringing the
Creative Past to the Present by stimulating new
projects on historic material, personal
experiences and professional support.
o Essence is a focussed approach
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The Holocaust Theatre On line Collection (HTC)
3. Academic basis- Trusted & edited content
o Supervised by a prominent Academic Board,
chaired by Prof. Gad Keynar, Chair Theatre
Department Tel Aviv University.
o Participates and initiates
o Stimulates research and exchange for scholars
o Is easily accessible and usable in class, lectures
etc.
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4. Focus on distribution
o recognized by Unesco- International Theatre
Institute and new Holocaust Branch of Unesco
o Access to 200 countries
o Pending Cooperation with International Holocaust
Taskforce.
o 945 institutions that deal with Holocaust
Memory and Education
o Seminars with:
o Yad Vashem and similar institutions in the US
o This all leads to a global distribution to a targeted
audience
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The Holocaust Theatre On line Collection (HTC)
6. Global Target Audience
o addressing a global audience that share a
common interest.
o By creating
o Social Community channels and
o Internet enabled solutions to share
performances and lectures etc.
o Educational curriculum.
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The Holocaust Theatre On line Collection (HTC)
7. Kitchen that feeds many restaurants.
The Kitchen of the various projects have outstanding
ingredients:
o digitised and aggregated Jewish Content
o knowledge management tools
o Support for the use of the digitised content
Menu
o Globally there are many restaurants that like to
serve personalised menus on ready ingredients
to their target clientele.
o Economies of scale
o Reusability
Customers
o a global audience that share a common interest.
What is the link between EJ & HTC ?
The Focus of Europeana Judaica
o Documentation of Jewish expression in Europe
o Digitisation and aggregation -DATA
o Deployment of knowledge management tools
o Support for the use of the digitised content
 Difference ?
o The Focus of HTC:
o Distribution
o Focussed Target Audiences
o From Data to Knowledge
o Educational Themes/Collections
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Jewish E-Culture
8. joint Jewish cultural digital space.
o The HTC project will open a global joint Jewish
cultural digital space on a thematic basis
o It bring e-culture, in themes, closer to the end user.
o All About Jewish Theatre
o All About Jewish Art
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All About Jewish Music
All About Jewish Literature
and so on.
Opportunity
o To share the global distribution channels with
Europeana Judaica and thematically aggregate
content and distribute globally
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Partners
Content aggregation & Distribution partners
o Akademie der Kuenste Berlin
o The personal library of Volker Kuhn, Berlin
o Yad Vashem
o The Terezin Museum.Prague
o The Center for Research on Dutch Jewry, Hebrew
University Jerusalem
o Holocaust Museum Washington DC
o Beit Theresienstadt
o Musee de la Shoa Paris
o Museum of Tolerance LA
o Yivo institute NY
o The Ghetto Fighters Museum – Beit Lochamay
Hagetaot
o Theatre department Tel Aviv University
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Supporters and Collaboration (i.a.)
 The Jewish Agency
 Rothschild Foundation Europe
 Foundation for Jewish Culture, New York
 European Association for Jewish Culture, London
 Association for Jewish Theatre (AJT)
 The Claims Conference
 Ministry for Culture and Sport, Ministry of Justice
Legacy Fund, The Ministry for Education
 Anne Frank Foundation
 International Holocaust Taskforce
 United States Holocaust Museum, Musee de la Shoa
Paris,Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam
 Pending: Hashava Foundation, Maror Israel
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 Yiddishpiel - Yiddish Theatre,Tel
Aviv
Institutional Partners
Patronage of
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Key quotes
From the Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance
The extraordinary courage and resilience of Jewish artists
in the face of insufferable conditions during the Shoah is,
indeed, a stellar example of the triumph of the human
spirit. It is certainly a vitally important story that must
continue to be told.”
From the Anne Frank Foundation:
The members of the Board are very impressed with The
Holocaust Theatre Online Collection and expressed their
interest in the project. The Board would like to know
whether and it what manner our foundation could possibly
lend support to this important project.
From the Head of Education of Musee de la Shoa Paris
I will do my part all I can to promote the success and
development of this project which seems really useful. So I
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hope to participate in future development.
Launching
o 70 years after the decision to implement the Final
Solution.
o 19 January 2012
o You cannot destroy Culture
o at the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin
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Call for pilot project:Jewish cultural digital space
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the emergence of the new structured Web,
the Linked Open Data Web
Europeana- (Judaica)
Eclap
Israel National Library project
o Now need to bring efficiently e-culture closer to the
end user.
CALL :
to join the HTC initiative to do a flagship pilot:
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Focus on joint distribution channels
Develop common target audience
Develop common themes.
Focused approach
o Deliverable: the framework or real implementation
and global use.
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Call for further Funding
All About Jewish Theatre is looking to obtain further
funding.
Further enquiries:
All About Jewish Theatre
Mark Ejlenberg
Director Strategic Development and Funding
P.O.Box 11818; 61116 Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone: +972 52 3444745,
in case of no phone availability please E-mail :
Ejlenberg@me.com
Website: www.jewish-theatre.com
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Thank you
&
questions
welcome
Ejlenberg@me.com
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