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 scar on one of six sculpture’s diabas-facets created as result of its unfortunate fall while travelling in the US in April 2022.

“Read the story: “Tevat Paul receives the Golden Scare”.

…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.

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Yours,
Elena Medvedev

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Jeweled with a Golden Scar

“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…

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“PILPAUL”

“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…

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“BEYAHAD LO NI-PAUL”

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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“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 the Spring of 2022. The only blot on the landscape: it broke, due to a fall when visiting Cambridge MA, one day before Pesach.  

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.

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.

Invite our Traveling Exhibition  @CONTACT 📩 to your institution and

Support the project A Traveling Tombstone direct:

Yours,
Elena Medvedev

P. S.: Read more about the project “A Traveling Tombstone”:

“Tevat Paul” visits Amsterdam & The Hague

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…

23. May 202325. May 2023

“Tevat Paul”

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”….

30. Jun 202221. Apr 2023

A Traveling Tombstone “Tevat Paul” in Montreal

The meeting with Professor Frank Chalk, in Montreal QC, Canada and my introduction of the project Tevat Paul to him went very successful….

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In May 2022, Tevat Paul visited a few places in and near New York City connected to Levine’s life-story.

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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.)

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].

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]

[1] From Levine’s correspondence, April 2019, Paul A. Levine Library.
[2] The Armenian Mirror Spectator, 10. October 2019, New Film on Armenian Genocide Will Depict American Help to Suffering Armenians, by Nahapetyan, H.

[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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Yours,
Elena Medvedev

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“…there´s a not inconsiderable Canadian connection in both my personal and professional life…” — Paul A. Levine, Summer 2018.

On my way to Boston and Cambridge, I’ll talk to you soon.

Yours,
Elena Medvedev