Leo Baeck Institute for the study of the History and Culture of German-Speaking Jewry
  Hermann Struck:  Artistic Wanderer from Berlin to Haifa

March 31 to August 29, 2008

 

Introduction

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3 Part 4

Part 5

Part 6

Part 7

 

Part 6: New Home Palestine

 

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Jerusalem

 

Over the years, Struck’s home became a meeting point for discussions about forming a country, including the British high commissioners to representatives of Jewish and Arab circles. After 1933, a veritable deluge of refugees from Germany knocked on Struck’s door, effectively making artistic work impossible: “So many hard luck cases go through my home now...” Struck wrote to a friend in Berlin. As before, Struck used his numerous contacts to help them wherever he could. Even though the last ten years of his life were overshadowed by his declining health, Struck left a lasting legacy as one of the most significant personalities in the public life of the new Jewish state as an artistic advisor, political mediator and artist.

 

Hermann Struck
Jerusalem