A Time Machine Made of Glass - E.M. Lilien’s View of the Hebrew Orient, with Shelley Harten

In the fourth lecture of our series, JMB curator Shelley Harten takes us through Jewish Galician artist Ephraim Moses Lilien’s visions of a future Hebrew Orient.
Harten uses Lilien’s drawing Moses (Design for a Glass Window), from the JMB collection, to travel through time to multiple destinations. The journey begins in 1904, the year the drawing was created, then jumps back in time to the mythological and biblical past as imagined by E.M. Lilien, and after a stopping off in the early 20th century for the founding of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, concludes with the hope for a Hebrew Orient.
Dr. Shelley Harten is the Curator for Contemporary and Modern Art and History at the Jewish Museum Berlin. She has curated such exhibitions as Rehearsing the Spectacle of Spectres (2023), Maya Schweizer: Sans Histoire (2023), Paris Magnétique. 1905-1940 (2023) and Yael Bartana - Redemption Now (2021). For the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, she curated the Israeli pavilion, putting together Queendom, an exhibition featuring the work of Ilit Azoulay.
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0:12 Welcome and Introduction by Daniel Wildmann
5:17 Welcome and Introduction by Shelley Harten
9:10 The beginnings of Zionist cultural education
16:06 Start of time travel: 1904
26:48 With the time machine to 1906
42:40 With the time machine to 1923
46:19 Epilogue: Time machine into the future
47:28 Conversation Daniel Wildmann & Shelley Harten