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Part A The Rediscovery of J. D. Kirszenbaum

After Nathan Diament retired from his professional life in business and administration in 2005 and his mother Lea and aunt Rachel died, he dedicated himself, together with his brother Amos, to rediscovering the work of J. D. Kirszenbaum, their great uncle. Amos and Nathan Diament had grown up with his work on the walls. At the age of 66, Nathan studied art history for two years and contacted archives and museums, which then brought works by Kirszenbaum out of their cellars and magazines into the light of day. He organized exhibitions and published a book about the painter Kirszenbaum. (J. D. Kirszenbaum (1900 - 1954) The Lost Generation - La Generation Perdue, Somogy Editions D'Art). Nathan and Amos are committed to ensuring that Kirszenbaum's work is given its rightful place in the history of modern Jewish art.

For further Information:

https://www.luftgeshefte.com/jdkirszenbaumenglish

Their parents Josek Diament and Gitla Laja Albaum (Kirszenbaum) had fled from Poland to Belgium in the 1930s. Nathan Diament was born in Brussels in 1938. When he was four years old, his parents had to hand him and his little brother Amos over into the hands of Christian people. They themselves were hidden in an attic. There was no talk about how the eldest son Jacob survived. There was no talk about that time at all.

Speakers: Nathan Diament and Yael Goldman

Music: Melancolie by Francois Poulenc, Piano Julien Bedon

Technical Support: Eli Jenka

My deepest gratitude and respect to Julien Bedon.

For all those who want to listen to the whole music in peace

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU29SEMFJEs

English   Part A 26  Min  Part B  31 Min.

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further links

https://www.kirszenbaum.com/

https://j-e-w-s.org/survival-through-metamorphosis-j-d-kirszenbaum/

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e_Geulen-Herscovici

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-teachers/geulen.asp

Without the following people, this podcast would not have come about.

In big thanks  to

Dr. Wolf Iro, Claus Luedenbach, Ralf Fincke, Bernhard Post, Axel Feuss, Johanna Linsler, Maleen Jupe, Ruth Rey, Liz Lambert, Anna Taube, Joel Grabowski

https://www.luftgeshefte.com/nathan

A very courageous woman lived in the GDR (East Germany) - a Holocaust survivor, an upright human, a former dancer and cabaret artist, a brave and confident Jewess, singer of Yiddish songs, a loving wife, mother and grandmother, a fighter, who was ready to pay a high price for her beliefs more than once in her life: Lin Jaldati, born 13.12. 1912 Amsterdam and died on 31.08. 1988 in East Berlin. Together with her sister Jannie (24.10. 1916 – 15.08. 2003), their husbands and a group of friends they were active in the Dutch resistance and saved the lives of several Jews during the German occupation. Lin had ambassadorial role of the East German state, performing, and bringing Beethoven, Brecht and Yiddish songs to Moscow, China, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Cambodia and even singing Yiddish songs in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1965.

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https://www.luftgeshefte.com/lin

Jalda Rebling, the daughter of Lin Jaldati, tells the life story of her mother, born as #Lientje Brilleslijper in Amsterdam. Together with her sister Jannie (24.10. 1916 – 15.08. 2003), their husbands and a group of friends they were active in the Dutch resistance and saved the lives of several Jews during the German occupation. In summer 1944 they were betrayed and Lientje and Jannie were deported to the transit camp Westerbork, further to Auschwitz Birkenau and finally to Bergen-Belsen. Just like Anne and Margot Frank, whom they met and befriended with them. Lin gave secret concerts during her time in the underground, sang for the other inmates in the concentration camps and in DP camps after the war.

A movie is being prepared based on Roxanne van Iperen's exciting book about Jannie and Lientje's resistance work.

Music: Lin Jaldati, Piano Eberhard Rebling

Technical support: Eli Jenka

With great gratitude to Jalda Rebling, Jakob Kranz, Hastedt Music Edition, Micol Arpa Rock

English  29 min.

www.jalda-rebling.com

http://www.hastedt-musikedition.de/pages/start_engl.html

https://www.roxanevaniperen.nl/

https://www.facebook.com/MicolArpaRock

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https://www.luftgeshefte.com/lin

Im Sommer 1900 wurde einer kinderreichen, bitterarmen Familie im Shtetl Staszów überraschenderweise noch ein Kind geboren. Chazkel (Jechezkel) David Kirszenbaum, Sohn des  Rabbiners Natan Meir und seiner Frau Rachel Alta.

Schon seit frühster Kindheit hat Chazkele Augen für die ihn umgebenden Menschen, die Wasser-  und Lastenträger, die Schneider, die Betenden, die Ärmsten der Armen, die Versehrten und Meschuggenen, für deren Eigenheiten, Gemeinheiten, ihre Leiden und religiöse Inbrunst.

Er wächst  als ein - durch den Segen eines Wunderrabbiners -  Geborener, mit einer Bestimmung auf:  ein Stern des Volkes Israel zu werden. Jedoch er liebt es, zu träumen, zu zeichnen, zu malen und die (weltlichen) Bücher der grossen jiddischen Dichter zu lesen....

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https://www.luftgeshefte.com/chezkele-german

Nach seiner Flucht aus Staszów kommt er 1920 in ein wirtschaftlich und politisch aufgewühltes und unsicheres Deutschland. Die Weimarer Republik steckt in ihren unruhigen Kinderschuhen. Im Ruhrgebiet verdient er sich als Arbeiter und Bergarbeiter seinen Lebensunterhalt, bis August Hoff, (der damalige Leiter des Duisburger Museumsvereins) Kirszenbaum darin unterstützt, ab 1923 in Weimar am Staatlichen Bauhaus ein Studium zu beginnen. 1925 zieht Kirszenbaum nach Berlin. Zwischen 1924 und 1929 herrschen ruhigere und kreative Zeiten, vor Allem in Berlin.

1933 fliehen J.D. Kirszenbaum und seine Frau Helma (Helena) nach Paris.

Wir waren eine ganze Generation von Kindern, die den Talmud im Cheder studiert hatten. Erschöpft von so vielen Jahren, die wir mit der Analyse von Texten verbracht hatten, schnappten wir uns Bleistifte und Pinsel und begannen, nicht nur die Natur, sondern auch uns selbst zu sezieren. Wer waren wir? Was war unser Platz unter den Nationen? Was sollte unsere Kunst repräsentieren? El Lissitzky 1932

Idee und Text: Yael Goldman, nach den Kindheitserinnerungen von J. D. Kirszenbaum

Sprecher: Joel Landshut, Yael Goldman

Technik Eli Jenka

Aufgenommen in ELROM Studios, Tel Aviv

Musik:

Einen grossen Dank an Inge Mandos für die Originalaufnahme von Nign Hamoyl HaMeteykhu,

Sänger Rakhmiel Grin. Mehr von dieser Musik gibt es auf dem Album WAKS – Yiddish Voices www.waks.info

Einen nicht minder grosser Dank an TRIKONT – unsere Stimme für die Musiken von dem Album

YIKHES

„Galitsyaner Khusid“, Mishke Ziganoff

„An Europeyishe Kolomeyke“, Alex Fidel, Harry Raderman

„Doina“, verm. Leon Ahl

„Nationale Hora“, Abe Shvarts

„Yoshke furt awek“ – Max Yenkovitz, Goldberg

www.Trikont.de

Danke an Dina, Libi, Leibl und Yossi

*Im Laufe seines Lebens und in den verschiedenen Ländern seines Schaffens hat Kirszenbaum seinen Namen in verschiedenen Variationenen geschrieben JDK, D.J. Kirszenbaum, Jecheskiel Kirszenbaum, Kirschenbaum, #Duwdiwani, Wani....

Deutsch 43 Minuten

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https://www.kirszenbaum.com/exhibitions-blog-new

https://www.luftgeshefte.com/chezkele