By Inna Rogatchi Instructions for Safety to Jews in the centre of Europe: November 2024 ‘Lock in your rooms. Don’t go anywhere. Externalisation of Jewish and Israeli symbols is forbidden’. Such instructions were sent to all Israelis who happened to be in Amsterdam yesterday and today, November 7th and 8th, 2024 by the Israeli National…
RAINER MAHLAMÄKI and His POLIN Building at the 10th anniversary of the Museum Special Essay by Inna Rogatchi with an Exclusive Interview The Phenomenon of the POLIN Almost a decade ago, my husband and I stepped inside the POLIN Museum in Warsaw for the first time, soon after its opening, yet before meeting its architect…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— On the International Holocaust Day 2021, in the midst of the total global paralysis caused by covid, The Daily Mail published an extraordinary material with a telling headline: A Paradise in Hell, and portraying a private life of the family of the Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess in the WWII’s…
The Shoah Abyss in the Detached Cinematography The entire The Zone of Interest film by Jonathan Glazer is a muted cry over our people exterminated in the Holocaust by the Nazis and their collaborators. And this is the main point of making it. Very just and timely point to make. That Grey Concrete House That…
By Inna Rogatchi, Rogatchi Foundation— A Violin on a Piano The first thing which grabbed my attention when entering a festive hall of the Residency of the German Ambassador in Vienna last Spring 2023, was a violin on a grand-piano. There was something special in this instrument, the sensation which one feels but not necessarily…
By Inna Rogatchi LITVAK ARTISTS IN PARIS EXHIBITION IN VILNIUS PART II. CELEBRATIONS & CHAGALL UNIVERSE In a remarkable way, additionally to the feast of Chagall, this exhibition also created three very special celebrations of great artists, Arbit Blatas born Neemia Arbitblatas, Rafael Chwoles and Michel Kikoine. In all three cases, there are not a single or couple of works of…
By Inna Rogatchi– LITVAK ARTISTS IN PARIS EXHIBITION IN VILNIUS PART I. GEMS & DISCOVERIES Alone with Chagall If this exhibition were to be on display in Paris or New York, the queues and hype there would be the same as at the Vermeer show in Amsterdam or van Gogh’s one in London. I was…
By Inna Rogatchi— BEREISHIT ILLUSTRATED Part I of II with Highlights Part II of the Introduction to the Bereishit Illustrated project can be read here. Inna Rogatchi © Light Solo. Watercolor, wax pastel, oil pastel, encre l’alcool, Luminance Caran d’Ache, pigment of bronze, pigment of pale gold on authored original pigment print on cotton paper…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— Reminiscence on the first yahrzeit of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks Chesvan 20th, 5781, the last year, was on Shabbat. In the secular calendar, it was November 7th, 2020. On Motzei Shabbat, in that special Shabbat-blessed mood being both relaxed and uplifted, we turned on our devices. And got the…
By Inna Rogatchi, Times of Israel— Michael Rogatchi Art & Aesthetic of a Modern-Day Spirituality Michael Rogatchi’s now widely known Forefathers works have originated as his Uzhpitzim series, personalised images of Jewish patriarchs and the formatting leaders of the nation. Each of those modern classic images has its own history, and they were not created…