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Allon
Aug 18, 20234 min read
030~ As long as in the heart within...
I can't count the times I've sung the Israeli Anthem. Gazillion, maybe? I never found it fun or uplifting... I don't think it has to be...
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Allon
Aug 11, 20234 min read
029~ Appropriation gives no Satisfaction
Casual Sidewalk Berlin 2008 Back in 2008, during my first visit to Berlin, a lot of turmoil was raging within my unsettled mind due to...
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Allon
Aug 4, 20236 min read
028~ Standing on both sides
The Wall 2008 I read 'The Nazi and the Barber' for the first time back in 1994, at the age of 21 just finishing my army service, I got my...
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Allon
Jul 21, 20233 min read
026~ The big problems of today were small back then
Zygmunt Bauman, in his book "Modernity and the Holocaust," presents an interesting idea on how feelings of hate begin. On page 37, ( I...
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Allon
Jun 30, 20233 min read
023~ Doda Ella or The wrong introduction to historical events
Associations on the edge of a flower bed in the fields. Babysitting "Doda Ella" (Aunty Ella) was one of the chores I dreaded the most. I...
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Allon
Jun 16, 20233 min read
021~ Post delegation reflections - Comic reliefs...
I got a few opportunities to work with young students who have just come back from the visit to Poland. The kids seemed as if they have...
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Allon
May 26, 20233 min read
018~ Teaching Photography on Holocaust Memorial Day
In Israel, I used to teach for many years in "Gifted Children Centers." 15 years ago, on the day of the Holocaust Memorial Day, I had the...
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Allon
May 17, 20233 min read
017~ Soap Myth? or Soap Opera?
Well did they? or did they not make Jew fragrant soap? If to sum it up ...According to some evidence given in a trial held regarding this...
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Allon
May 12, 20232 min read
016~ The day I met Hitler in the Shower
The Hitler style tap for the late 70's Here are a few more associations... After a long day's work, years before I even studied...
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Allon
Apr 28, 20237 min read
014~ It Ain't Bridging if you cross sides
Back in 2010, as I was advancing slowly but surely with the attempts to make sense of it all and still suppressing the idea of sharing my...
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Allon
Apr 22, 20234 min read
013~ A fluid, interactive Vs. solid one- directional memory (Part 3)
As I mentioned in my earlier post, my visit to the Yad Vashem memorial "replica" provoked a moment of realization. The discovery of the...
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Allon
Apr 14, 20232 min read
012~ Subtle differences in the sculptures tell more than meets the eye...(Part 2)
Continuing the thoughts regarding the differences between the two sculptures that I began last week, I wish to continue. According to the...
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Allon
Apr 7, 20231 min read
011~ The Difference between the 'identical' Monument is key (Part 1)
The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, by Natan Rapoport, commemorating the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, is placed in two locations:...
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Allon
Mar 31, 20232 min read
010~ My next Image is just one big misunderstanding!
I started thinking back to see how far I can remember any of those 100% unquestionable facts that 'helped' shape my biased perception...
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Allon
Mar 17, 20233 min read
008~ Stopping the madness back in 1936...
Olympic Stadium 2008 Lomography Back in 2008, Neta and I decided to go and check out the Olympic Stadium, where all those Leni...
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Allon
Mar 10, 20233 min read
007~ Gas...the answers were blowing in the wind
When I visited the USA for the first time at the age of 21, I had an icon I needed to see, which for me symbolized the United States! Not...
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Allon
Feb 24, 20233 min read
005~ Seeing the other side for the first time, from their side
Once again, down the stairs, on a train, off the train, through a tunnel, up and down all those Schindler's Lists... (one of which is now...
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Allon
Feb 17, 20233 min read
004~ The first time the project's concept revealed itself to me!
The first visual concept of this photo project came to me when I wasn't ready for it, even before I understood that I had found my...
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Allon
Feb 10, 20232 min read
003~ "To Berlin" 2008
Descending over those never-ending green forests, I am amazed by the clenching sensation in my throat. I tried joking about it with Neta,...
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