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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.

Summary

www.jewish-theatre.com


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All About Jewish Theatre:

o Part of the International Institute For Jewish andIsraeli Culture

o Initiated and developed by Moti Sandakin 2002

o Jewish culture accessible on line

o

the world

s only global on line networkdedicated to

Jewish theatre and performing arts

o Googlesfirstreference for the search term Jewish

theatreout of 4.200.000 search results

o 20 prominent editorial board memberso 18 correspondentsworld wide.

About Us 1/2



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o

Online Knowledge Bank: more than 10.000 original entrieson: 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 communitiesworldwide,

o P2C: any person with an interest to Jewish theatre

and performing arts.

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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)

Collection list: All About Jewish Theatre



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Despite unspeakably difficult circumstances,Jewish actors, singers, musicians, dancers,

filmmakers and others artists

regularly performed in the Nazis 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 willCarry 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 www.jewish-theatre.com


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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 tothe 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

The Holocaust Theatre On line Collection (HTC)



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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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2. Education & Remembrance, Next Generation

o educational vehicle for conveying the memory

to future generations through the eyes of the

Artand 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, personalexperiences and professional support.

o Essence is a focussed approach




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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 HolocaustTaskforce.

o 945 institutions that deal with Holocaust

Memory and Education

o Seminarswith:

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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6. Global Target Audience

o addressing a global audience that share a

common interest.

o By creating

o Social Community channels ando Internet enabled solutions to share

performances and lectures etc.

o Educational curriculum.




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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 ingredientsto their target clientele.

o Economies of scale

o Reusability

Customers

o a global audience that share a common interest.



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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 Distributiono Focussed Target Audiences

o From Data to Knowledge

o Educational Themes/Collections

What is the link between EJ & HTC ?



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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 Theatreo All About Jewish Arto All About Jewish Music

o All About Jewish Literature

o and so on.

Opportunity

o To share the global distribution channels with

Europeana Judaica and thematically aggregate

content and distribute globally

Jewish E-Culture



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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, HebrewUniversity Jerusalem

o Holocaust Museum Washington DC

o Beit Theresienstadt

o Musee de la Shoa Paris

o Museum of Tolerance LA

o Yivo institute NYo The Ghetto Fighters MuseumBeit Lochamay

Hagetaot

o Theatre department Tel Aviv University

Partners



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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

Yiddishpiel - Yiddish Theatre,Tel Aviv

Supporters and Collaboration (i.a.)



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Institutional Partners

Patronage of



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Launching

o 70 years after the decision to implement the Final

Solution.

o 19 January 2012

oYou cannot destroy Culture

o at the House of the WannseeConference inBerlin



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Call for pilot project:Jewish cultural digital space

o the emergence of the new structured Web,

o the Linked Open Data Web

o Europeana- (Judaica)

o Eclap

o 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:

o Focus on joint distribution channelso Develop common target audience

o Develop common themes.

o Focused approach

o Deliverable: the framework or real implementation

and global use. www.jewish-theatre.com


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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 EjlenbergDirector 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 :

[email protected]

Website: www.jewish-theatre.com



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Thank you&

questions

[email protected]


20111116 EvaMinerva HolocaustTheatre MarkEjlenberg

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