An exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum on Germany’s 1920s New Objectivity movement presents a cynical, unsentimental art that confronts reality without idealization. Curator Noam Gal stresses there is no parallel between Germany before Nazism and Israel in 2025, but says the need for critical art is ‘very familiar to us’
The brilliant historian Boaz Neumann hated historical comparisons. “As a historian, you cannot learn anything from history,” he said in an interview with Haaretz in 2014, less than a year before he died of cancer at the age of 43.