Did you see my Alps? A Jewish Love Story.
10.04. – 19.10.2011
Orthodox tourist, Davos 2008
Photo: Michael Melcer and Patricia Schon
The exhibition highlights for the first time the significance of Jewish mountaineers, artists, tourism pioneers, intellectuals, researchers and collectors and the role they played in the discovery and development of the Alps as a universal cultural and natural heritage. Viewing the Alps as a place of spiritual and sensuous experience is tied in with the history of the Jews and their entry into mainstream European society in multiple ways. Ever since Moses, the ‘first’ mountain climber in human history, Jewish people have gone in search of spiritual enlightenment and explored the laws and boundaries of reason in the soaring heights of mountains, on the threshold between heaven and earth, between nature and mind.
Flyer (2.08MB) (in German)
print page
send article
to the top