Announcements

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

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.

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.

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.

The documentary, which will be broadcast on ARD on 25 October 2021 at 20:15, features several images from the ALAVA holdings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our first publication documents the speeches and the exhibition which framed the ceremony launching the Arthur Langerman Foundation on 20 March 2019. If you are interested, get in touch with us and we will be happy to provide you with a copy. You can find a PDF with the speeches here

We are grateful to graphic artist Chiara Freschi of Brussels for her pro bono creation of the logo and free transfer of the rights of its use.

The Centre Communautaire Laïc Juif in Brussels has named our founder, Arthur Langerman, as “Mensch de l’année 2020” (“Mensch of the Year, 2020”), in recognition of his tireless efforts to preserve the memory of the persecution of Jews and to impart this knowledge to the younger generation. More information here

Since the spring of 2019, plans have been underway for the renovation of the building at Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 104-106, into which the Arthur Langerman Foundation and ALAVA will move together with the Center for Research on Antisemitism. Now, we have the architect’s first planning draft.