One Place - One Space - Two Worlds
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Project Overview
The first event treats Jewish heritage not as a decorative backdrop, but as a living present, a responsibility, and a cultural practice. The former synagogue is a place of remembrance and a space where visibility, dignity, education, art, and public responsibility can be renegotiated.
This page gathers the first group of projects: digital remembrance, testimony, language, music, research, public knowledge, and contemporary Jewish cultural visibility in Stommeln.
This hybrid event will take place on 30.09.2026 at the Gemeindezentrum "Martinus-Haus" / Martinussaal, Venloerstr. 546, 50259 Pulheim/Stommeln (Ecke Hauptstr., near the synagogue), from 18:00-21:00, and will be streamed on this website.
Programs: One Place - One Space - Two Worlds
Each project approaches the synagogue and the former Jewish community of Stommeln through a specific practice: documented names, artificial intelligence, curated data, Yiddish language, music, and source-based public history.
An interactive memorial connecting documented names from the historical Jewish community of Stommeln with a contemporary sponsorship layer for remembrance and support.
A temporary artistic intervention for the Stommeln Synagogue: a time-bound return of the room as a place of prayer, gathering, and remembrance.
Submitted by the initiative as part of the Synagogue Stommeln art project.
Live Performance - ensemble hand werk: ensemble-handwerk.eu. "The Thread" music piece (7 min) will be performed live and live streamed at the first event.
Boaz Kaizman used the poem as the basis for the composition, generated through a text-to-music workflow that maps the voice of Henry Kurz reading the poem onto musical notation for ensemble performance.
A bilingual heritage information system about the Jewish Community of Stommeln, combining curated JSON data with a conversational assistant for synagogue, cemetery, family, and survivor testimony knowledge.
A public language project beginning with the gesture of writing Stommeln in Yiddish, connecting the synagogue, the weekly market, clothing, prints, downloads, and encounter.
A source-based study of how the synagogue's history was reshaped through Wikipedia edits, arguing for careful correction of simplified rescue narratives and accessible public knowledge.
Broadcast
The event will be streamed live on YouTube here on 30 September 2026, from 18:00 to 21:00.
An Evening for Stommeln · Live
Event technology is sponsored by Finder Media GmbH. Thank you!