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Foto Rachel

Another exhibition which I visited last week at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv was the very interesting and moving exhibition of photographs named Foto Rachel – open to the public until March 30. It marks and brings testimony … Continue reading

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Trenul credintei

After writing yesterday about the Eretz Israel exhibition about the First Governor of Jerusalem, I was asked about my article on the Hejaz train exhibition. I looked back in my archives and I discovered that it was written a few … Continue reading

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Sir Ronald Storrs – The First Governor of Jerusalem

The Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv has a great tradition of exceptional historic exhibitions, based on photography and documents that bring back important and sometimes forgotten episodes from the history of the Land of Israel before and after the … Continue reading

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The 6th Biennale for Israeli Ceramic

This is a first in a series of articles about the exhibitions we visited last Saturday at the Eretz Israel Museum The first exhibition we visited was the show that every two years gathers the most interesting works in the … Continue reading

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Machiavelli’s ‘La Mandragola’ at the Beit Lessin Theatre

The Israeli mainstream theaters suffer from a repertory policy which encourages commercial plays and leaves too little room to my taste to innovation – both in what concerns the selected texts as well as the means of expression. The Beit … Continue reading

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Serge Gainsbourg at Casino de Paris

I have written a few weeks ago about Joann Sfar’s film Gainsbourg (Vie Eroique) which I liked a lot. The Arte TV culture channel broadcast several segments dedicated to Gainsbourg 20 years after his death (on March 2, 1991). One … Continue reading

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Jazz: Henri Texier

The Mezzo TV station presented a documentary and concert excerpts featuring bassist Henri Texier. Born in 1945 Texier became known in the 60s and 70s when he worked with several American jazz players who were singing in the Paris hot … Continue reading

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Jazz: Seamus Blake, Rodney Green & Assaf Kehati in Tel Aviv

The Hot Jazz series at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art proposed for its 5th concert of the season an experiment. Instead of bringing in one special guest with his band or with an Israeli band (usually in quartet formula) … Continue reading

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An Oscar for ‘Stangers No More’

The Oscar goes to … ‘Strangers No More’ for the Best Documentary Short Subject – a film about a very special school in Tel Aviv, a school that gathers children from 48 countries whose parents are foreign workers in Israel. … Continue reading

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Carte: Jean Velicy – Dincolo de paduri, Ardealul…

Una dintre placerile mele marturisite este de a-mi ghida prietenii in cele doua spatii pe care le consider ale mele, de a-i introduce in istoria si prezentul, realitatile fizice si cele spirituale ale tarii in care m-am nascut si ale … Continue reading

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