Announcements
23/24 September 2022 / Location: Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin | Workshop: “Belgium, Germany and the ‘Others’”
The Working Group for Historical Research on Belgium organizes the workshop “Belgium, Germany and the ‘Others’. Pictures, Discourses and Practices of Discrimination, Exclusion and Persecution” in cooperation with the Arthur Langerman Archive for the Study of Visual Antisemitism (ALAVA). More information about the program and registration here
15/16 September 2022 / Location: Topography of Terror Documentation Center | Workshop: “Vorzeigen, Verhüllen, Verschließen“
The Center for Research on Antisemitism, the German Historical Museum and the Topography of Terror Documentation Center host the workshop “Vorzeigen, Verhüllen, Verschließen – Wie können antisemitische und rassistische Bilder und Objekte ausgestellt werden?“. Registration is requested by September 5th at workshop@topographie.de. See the program here
13 July 2022 / 18:15 / Location: Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin | Lecture by Angelika Königseder and Carl-Eric Linsler in the research colloquium of the Center for Research on Antisemitism
The lecture by Angelika Königseder and Carl-Eric Linsler on “The ‘Langerman Collection’ at the Center for Research on Antisemitism. Research Potentials and Challenges of a Collection of Visual Antisemitica for Education and Exhibition Practice” gives insights into the work of the “Arthur Langerman Archive for the Study of Visual Antisemitism” (ALAVA). The lecture takes place in the framework of the research colloquium of the Center for Research on Antisemitism. See details here
2 July 2022 / 20:00 / Location: TU Main Building, Berlin | Lecture by Angelika Königseder at the Long Night of the Sciences
As part of the Long Night of the Sciences at TU Berlin, Angelika Königseder will speak in her lecture “The Image of the ‘Jew’” about the development of anti-Jewish depictions. Using examples, she shows how antisemitic depictions of Jews were already circulating before the agitation of the Stürmer and the invention of the internet.
Exhibition “#Fake Images” at the European Commission in Brussels
The exhibition “#Fake Images: Unmask the Dangers of Stereotypes”, which has been organized by the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen from 28 January until 7 December 2021, will be shown in a reduced version at the European Commission’s Berlaymont building from 8 November until 10 December 2022.
Traveling Exhibition “Plume de fiel, Images de haine” at the Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
The traveling exhibition “Plume de fiel, Images de haine. Esquisse d’une collection insolite”, which has been designed on the occasion of Arthur Langerman’s honoring as “Mensch de l‘année 2020”, will be shown at the Centre culturel de rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster (Neimënster) from 10 June until 26 July 2022. The exhibition will be inaugurated on 9 June 2022 at 18:30 h.
More information here
4 May 2022 / 18:45 / Location: Bibliotheek Scharpoord, Knokke-Heist | Book presentation and exhibition “Motke & Grand Hôtel”
On 4 May 2022, the journalist Rosine De Dijn will present her book Overleven na de Holocaust. It focuses on the “Hotel Motke” in the Belgian sea resort Knokke, which accommodated many Jewish guests after the Second World War. An accompanying exhibition, which features postcards from the Langerman Collection, shows its history.
See the program here
New publication: “Arthur Langerman – Mensch de l’année 2020. Documentation of the Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Catalog”
Arthur Langerman has been awarded the title “Mensch de l’année” by the Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif in Brussels in 2020. The exhibition “Poison Pens, Images of Hatred. Extracts from an Unusual Collection” has been created in honor of this occasion. The Arthur Langerman Foundation’s second publication can
be acquired here.
Prolongation of the exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Brussels
The exhibition “Images caricaturales des Juifs à travers l’histoire. Esquisse d’une collection insolite” at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels has been prolonged until 3 June 2022.
Documentary “Jud Süß 2.0 – Vom NS- zum Online-Antisemitismus”
The documentary, which features numerous images from the ALAVA holdings, as well as interviews with the director of the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, and our collection director Carl-Eric Linsler, will be broadcast on ARTE on 19 January 2022 at 0:30 and on 25 January at 22:40. In addition, it will be broadcast on ORF 2 on 24 January at 23:25. The film can be seen in advance from 18 January onwards in the ARTE media library.
28 October 2021 / 18:30 / Location: Belgian Embassy, Berlin | Book presentation and discussion
As part of the presentation of Rosine De Dijn’s book “Überleben nach dem Holocaust”, the author speaks with Uffa Jensen and Arthur Langerman about the latter’s family history, his collection and antisemitism in Belgium and Germany. The event is accompanied by music from the choir “Gofenberg & Chor“. See the program here
Documentary “Schalom und Hallo. 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland”
The documentary, which will be broadcast on ARD on 25 October 2021 at 20:15, features several images from the ALAVA holdings.
Exhibition at the Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels
The exhibition “Plume de fiel, Images de haine. Esquisse d’une collection insolite”, which has been designed by our curator Philippe Pierret on the occasion of Arthur Langerman’s honoring as “Mensch de l‘année 2020”, will be shown, in revised form, under the title “Images caricaturales des Juifs à travers l’histoire. Esquisse d’une collection insolite” at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels from 15 October 2021 until 31 March 2022.
More information here
New publication: Rosine De Dijn, “Überleben nach dem Holocaust”
In her book “Überleben nach dem Holocaust. Über das Grand Hôtel im belgischen Seebad Knokke, das bewegte Leben des Monsieur Motke und wie das jüdische Antwerpen, das ‘Jerusalem an der Schelde’, wieder auflebte”, the Belgian journalist and author Rosine De Dijn also approaches Arthur Langerman’s family history. The publication, which is available in Dutch and German, contains numeous illustrations from the ALAVA holdings.
View the publisher’s announcement here
New publication: “Grenzen des Sag- und Zeigbaren. Humor im Bild von 1900 bis heute”
The collective volume edited by Prof. Dr. Frank Becker and Dr. Antonia Gießmann-Konrads is the result of the eponymous conference, which took place in Essen in June 2019. The book contains an article by Clemens Schwender (“Visueller Humor als Kritik und Ausgrenzung am Beispiel der Postkartenserie ‘Der kleine Cohn’ – Entwicklung einer Humortheorie”) which features several postcards from the ALAVA holdings.
View the publication here
22 June 2021 / 16:00 / Location: Kreuzberg Initiative against Antisemitism, Berlin (virtual event) | Lecture by Carl-Eric Linsler
As part of the ENCATE Certificate Program “Current Forms of Antisemitism,” organized by the European Network for Countering Antisemitism through Education (ENCATE), the Kreuzberg Initiative against Antisemitism (KIgA) and the Center for Research on Antisemitism, Carl-Eric Linsler lectures on “Working with Antisemitic Artifacts.” The ENCATE Certificate Program is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth. See the program here
New publication: “Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe. Imagery of Hatred”
The collective volume edited by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences is the result of the international conference “Visual Antisemitism in Central Europe”, which took place in Prague in October 2019. The book features numerous postcards from the ALAVA holdings and is available in English and Czech.
View the English edition here
View the Czech edition here
Interview with our collection director
In the interview conducted by the Coordination Centre for Scientific University Collections in Germany, our collection director Carl-Eric Linsler speaks, among other things, about the challenges which arise from working with problematic imagery such as anti-Jewish stereotypes and about a set of objects which holds a special significance for him. See the interview here
The new yearbook of the Center for Research on Antisemitism has been published
Several articles in the Yearbook for Research on Antisemitism (2020) address the phenomenon of visual antisemitism and racism. In their essay, Carl-Eric Linsler and Angelika Königseder present the Langerman Collection and the Arthur Langerman Archive for the Study of Visual Antisemitism. You can find a PDF with the article here
27 January 2021 / 20:00 / Location: Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen (virtual event) | Exhibition Opening
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the exhibition #Fake Images: Unmask the Dangers of Stereotypes at the Kazerne Dossin Memorial will be inaugurated in virtual form. The exhibition shows a large selection of images and objects from the holdings of the Arthur Langerman Archive for the Study of Visual Antisemitism. You can watch the ceremony, which will be broadcast in Dutch and French, via this link