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Friday, March 16, 2007
New Jewish Museum Opens in Birthplace of Nazism
New Jewish Museum Opens in Birthplace of Nazism
Work of American Comic Book Artist Jordan B. Gorfinkel
Included in Permanent Exhibition
Munich Jewish Museum to Open March 22
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Shira Dicker
212.663.4643/917.403.3989
shira.dicker@sd-media.com
New York, NY (March 14, 2007) -- A monument to Jewish survival will open on March 22nd in the very city that was the birthplace of Nazism – Munich, Germany.
On that day, the city’s first-ever Jewish Museum will open its doors to the public. Therein, the story of Munich’s Jewish community will be told through the form of a four-panel American newspaper comic strip – a conceptual leap of faith – that will become part of the museum’s permanent exhibition.
Veteran comic book artist, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, creator of Everything’s Relative -- a comic strip that has been featured in Jewish newspapers around the world for the past ten years – is the creator of the innovative and edgy artwork. “It is a great honor -- but also, a tremendous responsibility -- to be entrusted with portraying one of the most central and important narratives in contemporary Jewish history in cartoon form,” said Mr. Gorfinkel.
The opening of this new museum in Germany’s “other city” is the culmination of a process that began in 1928 and was cruelly derailed by the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. Over 4,000 Munich Jews perished during the Holocaust and the proximity of the infamous death camp, Dachau, to Munich is a constant reminder of the horrors inflicted by the Nazis.
The Nazis sought to erect museums to the “extinct Jewish race,” yet the creation of the new Munich Jewish Museum celebrates Jewish survival.
“Opening an exhibition on the history of the Jews is something that Hitler had planned as well, to be able to celebrate their extinction. But the exhibition on these walls tells another story. It defies the world to take notice of the return of Judaism to the streets of Munich in fulfillment of the prophetic promise, 'The eternity of Israel shall never be forsaken,’” stated Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
To read more about Jordan B. Gorfinkel and his important new exhibition, please visit www.jewishcartoon.com. For further information about the MJM, please visit www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de.
To request an interview with Mr. Gorfinkel or see samples of his work, please contact Shira Dicker at 212.663.4643 or 917.403.3989 or at shira.dicker@sd-media.com.
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Work of American Comic Book Artist Jordan B. Gorfinkel
Included in Permanent Exhibition
Munich Jewish Museum to Open March 22
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Shira Dicker
212.663.4643/917.403.3989
shira.dicker@sd-media.com
New York, NY (March 14, 2007) -- A monument to Jewish survival will open on March 22nd in the very city that was the birthplace of Nazism – Munich, Germany.
On that day, the city’s first-ever Jewish Museum will open its doors to the public. Therein, the story of Munich’s Jewish community will be told through the form of a four-panel American newspaper comic strip – a conceptual leap of faith – that will become part of the museum’s permanent exhibition.
Veteran comic book artist, Jordan B. Gorfinkel, creator of Everything’s Relative -- a comic strip that has been featured in Jewish newspapers around the world for the past ten years – is the creator of the innovative and edgy artwork. “It is a great honor -- but also, a tremendous responsibility -- to be entrusted with portraying one of the most central and important narratives in contemporary Jewish history in cartoon form,” said Mr. Gorfinkel.
The opening of this new museum in Germany’s “other city” is the culmination of a process that began in 1928 and was cruelly derailed by the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party. Over 4,000 Munich Jews perished during the Holocaust and the proximity of the infamous death camp, Dachau, to Munich is a constant reminder of the horrors inflicted by the Nazis.
The Nazis sought to erect museums to the “extinct Jewish race,” yet the creation of the new Munich Jewish Museum celebrates Jewish survival.
“Opening an exhibition on the history of the Jews is something that Hitler had planned as well, to be able to celebrate their extinction. But the exhibition on these walls tells another story. It defies the world to take notice of the return of Judaism to the streets of Munich in fulfillment of the prophetic promise, 'The eternity of Israel shall never be forsaken,’” stated Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
To read more about Jordan B. Gorfinkel and his important new exhibition, please visit www.jewishcartoon.com. For further information about the MJM, please visit www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de.
To request an interview with Mr. Gorfinkel or see samples of his work, please contact Shira Dicker at 212.663.4643 or 917.403.3989 or at shira.dicker@sd-media.com.
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