The first week of May 2023, the Traveling Tombstone, Tevat Paul, visited Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands. It was a wonderful short excursion during which the first sculpture of the series posed in a few places, and for a good reason: preparations for an exhibition later this year.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ in Amsterdam. Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt. Engraved: “RESPONSIBLE IRRESPONSIBILITY – Paul A. Levine”.
A few shots also expose a golden scar on one of six sculpture’s diabas-facets created as result of its unfortunate fall while travelling in the US in April 2022.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ visits Amsterdam, Netherlands. Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ visits The Haague, Netherlands. Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt.
…And most importantly, we are continuing and meeting new and old friends. I sincerely thank all those who have provided and are providing all kinds of support.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ visits Amsterdam, Netherlands. Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt.
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“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.” – Shane Koyczan Although in our case we had to collect pieces not of the heart, but of sculpture, the muse was most supportive this time as well. As you may remember, Tevat Paul performed spectacularly in its journey across the North American continent in…
“PILPAUL” — the sculpture No. 3 of the series is looking for support. This fundraiser aims to continue our project “A Traveling Tombstone” with the third sculpture in this series, the naturally formed hexagonal basalt disk that exposes a wheel within a wheel which are inseparable parts of the same stone piece. I would really…
A Traveling Tombstone – the sculpture “BEYAHAD LO NI-PAUL” in memory of Paul A. Levine — a project in collaboration with sculptor Robert Schmidt-Matt and Elena Medvedev, the initiative “Paul A. Levine Library”…
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After splitting one of its “shoulders”, Tevat Paul continued traveling to NYC, Montreal and back to Berlin–partly broken, nevertheless successful.
At home, Tevat Paul had to spend several days at the sculptor’s atelier in Berlin Kreuzberg–the place of its creation–for a very special treatment, Kintsugi, thoughtfully prepared to both heal and refine its fracture. With the Kintsugi technique, gold is used to attach the broken parts by creating a gold connection that highlights the blemish.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ jeweled with a golden scar, Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt.
It was my cousin Michelle, a social worker in Lynn, Massachusetts, who introduced me to the Kintsugi method, and I am very grateful to her for this truly wonderful idea for the restoration of Tevat Paul. Michelle’s idea of using the traditional Japanese art of pottery restoration, combined with talent, care and love, turned in the sculptor’s hands into a golden scar on the stone.
Since then, our hexahedral “traveling hero”, Tevat Paul, is whole again, jeweled with a golden scar.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ jeweled with a golden scar, Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt.
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The first week of May 2023, the Traveling Tombstone, Tevat Paul, visited Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands. It was a wonderful short excursion during which the first sculpture of the series posed in a few places, and for a good reason: preparations for an exhibition later this year. A few shots also expose a golden…
A Traveling Tombstone – the sculpture “Tevat Paul” in memory of Paul A. Levine — is a project in collaboration with sculptor Robert Schmidt-Matt and the initiative “Paul A. Levine Library”….
Visiting Professor Frank Chalk, Department of History Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada
“…there´s a not inconsiderable Canadian connection in both my personal and professional life…” — Paul A. Levine, Summer 2018.
After special trip to New York – Levine‘s city of birth – Tevat Paul moved further, hexagonally dissecting the expanses of the “heavenly ocean” on the small Embraer aircraft, direction Montreal, to meet Professor Frank Chalk at Concordia University.
Professor of History and Research Director at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, Concordia University, Prof. Dr. Frank Chalk was Paul Levine’s mentor and colleague for several decades. On the tenth floor of the Library Building, seated in his History Department office, overlooking Montreal Downtown West from a bird’s eye view, Professor Chalk shared his memories of meetings with Paul Levine.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ meets Prof. Dr. Frank Chalk, Department of History Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada. Series: “Zweisam”; Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt. Material: Diabas, 10 x 10 x 12 cm. Engraved: “RESPONSIBLE IRRESPONSIBILITY – Paul A. Levine”.
“Over the years, we have met and exchanged ideas several times starting with my visit to Uppsala University in the late 1990s to participate in a teacher training program, followed by discussions during a training program for mid-level foreign affairs officials organized by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation in Poland in 2012, and, most recently, at the Armenian Government conference on genocide prevention in Yerevan in April 2016…”.
“Dr. Levine is one of those rare research scholars who thinks deeply and seriously about what we teach and how we teach it. In publication after publication and talk after talk, he probes what changes happen in the classroom when we teach about the Shoah in different nations and cultural contexts, how the recent emphasis on the memory of the Holocaust affects the facts we emphasize or ignore, and what lessons the Holocaust might teach us that would inform our responses to identity politics….” – Chalk, Frank, 2016.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ visited Prof. Dr. Frank Chalk, Department of History Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada. Series: “Zweisam”; Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt. Material: Diabas, 10 x 10 x 12 cm. Engraved: “RESPONSIBLE IRRESPONSIBILITY – Paul A. Levine”.
Professor Chalk asked detailed questions about both the Tevat Paul project and the Initiative itself, showing high interest and great participation, expressing the warmest wishes for success.
Thanks for the cookies, Professor Chalk, and for the heartfelt welcome.
With the beginning of summer 2022, the very first journey of the Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul was nearing its successful conclusion. The way forward takes us back home, to Berlin. Just as wars finally end with negotiations, so travels end with the way home. And the first journey that has come to an end clears the way for the next one… Maybe Sweden or Israel? England, Hungary? – Who knows…
Do you too feel connected to Professor Paul A. Levine and his work, and would you like to meet Tevat Paul, a Traveling Tombstone dedicated to the star-historian as well?
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The meeting with Professor Omer Bartov, in Cambridge MA, and my introduction of the project Tevat Paul to him, was truly the icing on the cake of my trip to Boston.
The first stop on this unique journey of A Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul is Toronto, Canada, a country that, according to historian Paul A. Levine, was of great importance in his life.
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In 1956, the second son of four children, Paul A. Levine was born in New York City; he later admitted some “…dim memories from painfully musty Brighton Beach/Brooklyn apartments… …thinking and feeling Grandpa Levine, who took care of me and always brought fresh borscht to NJ.” (Levine, 2019.)
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ in New York; series: “Zweisam”; Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt. Material: Diabas, 10 x 10 x 12 cm. Engraved: “Responsible irresponsibility – Paul A. Levine”. 2022.
It was 1964 or early 1965, in Emerson NJ, when two Jewish-American boys – Paul and Ric – on their daily walk to school and back walked along the Main Street, passed by the Armenian nursing home every day. Nearby, 500 meters east, on Elmwood Drive, was the home of their family. Paul was then a seven-year-old child and did not understand that he was observing Armenians who survived the genocide [1].
Emerson Elementary School, Emerson NJ“Main [St] led into Linwood and our school was on our left as we walked up Main [St]“Emerson NJ, 2022.Tevat Paul – A Traveling Tombstone in Emerson NJ. “… I walked to Linwood School from our small house about 500 meters from the Nursing Home. Every day we passed what we called, “The Armenian Old People´s Home”. That was all I knew about it. …What I remember most are the hands of some of the old people sitting in the garden. I remember looking hard at their gloves, and often seeing clearly that there were fingers missing. To a young boy, they should have been there. But they were not, and this I can´t forget.” — Levine, 2019.
In 2019, Levine was the narrator of the film “The American Samaritans”, the film that reports about him traveling in the US, working for the project about the Armenian Genocide. [2]
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“I first met Omer Bartov in 1992, at Rutgers University Department of History. You were, I discovered on my arrival to New Jersey, the “Raoul Wallenberg Professor of Human Rights, and I was…of all things, a junior fellow of the same programme. I’ll never forget our first conversation at a coffee shop in New Brunswick…” [3]
[3] Levine, P. A., 7th Annual Hugo Valentin Lecturer, Introduction of Prof. Omer Bartov, 10 March 2009.
"1994- 1996: Rutgers University, Department of History, adjunct lecturer. Taught courses in history of the Holocaust, history methods and modern European history. 1994- 1996: Rutgers University, Director, The Raoul Wallenberg Professorship in Human Rights. Responsibilities included fundraising, development of Holocaust educational outreach programs for teachers, organizing public lectures and academic conferences, etc. 1992- 1993: Rutgers University, Department of History-- Visiting Lecturer & Fellow, The Raoul Wallenberg Professorship in Human Rights" – Levine's Academic Employment and Positions. From CV, March, 2019.
"...I have known Dr. Levine's work since ... when he held the Raoul Wallenberg Professorship in Human Rights at Rutgers University."– Frank Chalk, 2016.
“Dr. Levine is well known and highly respected by scholars studying the Shoah and the history of genocide for his pioneering scientific research on Raoul Wallenberg’s role in Hungary; for his great achievement in co-authoring the most widely circulated and extensively translated popular history of the Holocaust, Tell Ye Your Children; and for his effective and energetic role as a public intellectual confronting the themes of rescue and by-standing during the Holocaust….” – Chalk, Frank, 2016.
On my way to the Montreal Institute for Genocide & Human Rights Studies, Concordia University, to meet Professor Frank Chalk, I’ll talk to you soon..
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Commemorating Historian Levine, “A Traveling Tombstone” sculptures series is a project in collaboration with sculptor Robert Schmidt-Matt and the initiative “Paul A. Levine Library”…
A Traveling Tombstone – the sculpture series in memory of Paul A. Levine — a project in collaboration with sculptor Robert Schmidt-Matt and the initiative “Paul A. Levine Library”…
“Today, the need for effectively taught and historically accurate Holocaust education is greater than ever. This is true for many reasons central to our lives, and for the future of our children. Though this epochal tragedy occurred in Europe, it is impossible to understand our globalized world today without understanding the basics of Holocaust history…
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“…there´s a not inconsiderable Canadian connection in both my personal and professional life…” — Paul A. Levine, Summer 2018.
A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul“ in Toronto; series: “Zweisam”; Sculptor: Robert Schmidt-Matt. Material: Diabas, 10 x 10 x 12 cm. Engraved: “Responsible irresponsibility – Paul A. Levine”. Photo credits: Amir Gavriely. 2022.
The first stop on this unique journey of A Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul is Toronto, Canada, a country that, according to historian Paul A. Levine, was of great importance in his life.
👉 A Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul made its first city tour, posing in a number of prominent and lesser-known urban locations. This sculpture is a project in collaboration with sculptor Robert Schmidt-Matt and the initiative “Paul A. Levine Library”.
Here, in downtown Toronto, a long-awaited meeting with activists of the initiative Nataly Khazin and Amir Gavriely took place recently.
Israeli-Canadian photographer Amir Gavriely captured some moments of our meeting and also his impressions of meeting the sculpture Tevat Paul live, perfectly fitting it into the architectural context of the North American metropolis. An important detail: we owe this wonderful and meaningful name of the sculpture to Amir, who suggested the name Tevat Paul. Indeed, what a great idea!
Now then: see & admire Tevat Paul in Toronto.
CN TowerArt Gallery of Ontario – extension designed by Frank GehryTwo Large Forms – by Henry Moore, at Grange Park, TorontoTevat Paul – A Traveling Tombstone in Canada. Photo credits: Amir Gavriely. Two Large Forms – by Henry Moore, at Grange Park, TorontoRobarts Library, University of TorontoArt Gallery of Ontario – extension designed by Frank GehryA Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul in Canada. Photo credits: Amir Gavriely. At Hart House, University of Toronto Student CentreLittle Free Library, Huron Street, TorontoAt Hart House, University of Toronto Student CentreA Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul in Canada. Photo credits: Amir Gavriely. Amir & Elena; Tevat Paul – A Traveling Tombstone in Toronto.Unionville, just north of TorontoOntario College of Art & Design University.A Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul in Canada. Photo credits: Amir Gavriely. a natural stone (Diabas) sculpture commemorating Holocaust historian Paul A. Levine, with his epitaph carved into it: “Responsible Irresponsibility. Paul A. Levine”.A Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul in Canada. Photo credits: Amir Gavriely.
See A Traveling Tombstone Tevat Paul – few more impressions
On my way to Boston and Cambridge, I’ll talk to you soon.
W E B I N A R – 7.12.2020 ✿ IN MEMORY OF PAUL A. LEVINE Forward and Don’t Forget: Writing & Teaching About The Holocaust Today THE WEBINAR IS organized by: Elena Medvedev, INITIATOR, The Initiative Paul A. Levine Library.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – WEBINAR 2020 Forward and Don’t Forget: Writing & Teaching About The Holocaust Today ✿ IN MEMORY OF PAUL A. LEVINE December, 7, 2020, 17:00 CET (11 AM EST)Zoom-based DOWNLOAD POSTER Please plan on joining us online for an especially interesting talk. This will be the first webinar program organized by The Initiative.…
Learn more about the Initiative “Paul A. Levine Library”: “Who are we? What are we doing? What are our goals?” – a short intro answers these basic questions.
In Paul A. Levine Library, Wilmersdorf, Berlin, 2019.
The Student Initiative A. Levine Library promotes science and research by maintaining the highly relevant collection of books and research documents from the estate of Professor Paul A. Levine. The initiative plans various scientific events and research projects, and contributes to the continuation of Levine’s work in awareness, education and combat against Anti-Semitism.
Professor Paul A. Levine, an eminent historian, gifted teacher, author of Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest: Myth, History and Holocaust and co-author of Tell ye Your Children left behind his collection of well over 5.000 academic titles (according to Paul’s statement),, mainly devoted to Jewish history, the Second World War and the Holocaust as well as his own research materials and research notes.
The topics we are interested in are the preservation of Jewish history, culture and religion. Our holding of historical documents about the persecution and murder of European Jews during the Nazi era, make the library i an important collective place as well as a place for research and for remembrance of the Shoah.
The current issues on our agenda are storytelling, management & organizational process, technical support, fundraising, budgets, and advocacy.
Learn about the Initiative Paul A. Levine Library: “Who are we? What are we doing? What are our goals?” – a short intro answers these basic questions.
The Student Initiative A. Levine Library is looking for means and solutions for achieving our aims, making our ideas real. We are at the very beginning and are looking for partners and interesting collaborations.
Our Target Group: everyone who supports our Idea and is interested in the topics, related to our Library-Initiative. Read more in the About Us section of this website.
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