Prizes and Awards
The following Prizes were created for the best students projects:
Terry Haass Prize
The Prize was created for the best art projects. Established after consultations with the important French artist Terry Haass. Before WWII she used to live in the Lostice region - in the town of Mohelnice. Because of her Jewish origin she escaped from the country in 1939. She lives in Paris.
Fanny Neuda Prize
The Prize was created for the best literature and music projects. Established after consultations with Dinah Berland from Los Angeles. In 2007 Ms Berland prepared the new edition of the book tilled Hours of Devotion. This book was originally written in 1854 in Lostice by Fanny Neuda, who was the wife of the local rabbi Abraham Neuda.
Professor Elie Wiesel Prize
The Prize was created for the important humanitarian project or deed. Established with the consent of the Professor Elie Wiesel, who is for several years the honorary member of the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance.
FANNY NEUDA PRIZE
Prize is named in the honor of Fanny Neuda, who wrote the book tilled Hours of Devotion (Studen der Andach) in Lostice in 1854. Her prayer book is quite significant, because it was the first of its kind to be written by a Jewish woman for Jewish women. Soon it became a best seller, published in more than 30 editions. Around 1860 it was also translated into English (Published in New York in 1864, reprinted until 1900). The modern German edition was issued for Jewish women living in the Nazi Germany (Frankfurt, 1936) and reissued after the war during 1950s and 1960s. The new enlarged English edition was recently prepared by Dinah Berland (editor of Getty Publications) and will be published by Schocken Books (New York) in August 2007.
In 2006 Ms. Berland came to the Czech Republic and to Lostice to study the materials prepared by the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance.
Fanny Neuda became forgotten in our region, while her book was being published and republished in several countries. Thanks to the cooperation of Dinah Berland and Foundation, the Czech public is now being informed about Fanny Neuda and her work. In 2006 her book was translated to the Czech language by the foremost Hebraist Jaroslav Achab Haidler and some prayers were broadcasted by the Czech Radio. It was historically the first presentation of her Fanny Neuda’s texts in Czech.
The Prize will be awarded to students and teachers who take part in the Respect and Tolerance educational programs - for their best projects in the area of literature and music focused on promotion of human rights, mutual respect and understanding. The winner or winning team will be selected by the committee consisting of members of the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance and representatives of contributing donors to the Prize fund.
The winning projects will be presented in exhibitions and the reward will include
3 000 Czech Crowns (150.00USD) and the Fanny Neuda’ publications.
The 2005 Fanny Neuda Prize
On Wednesday May 31, 2006 the Prize was awarded to Mrs. Svatava Simkova and all members of the children’s choir Vetrnik from Lostice. In 2004 the choir prepared a program of Jewish songs, psalms and poetry. During the year 2005 they performed in openings of the Respect and Tolerance exhibitions in the Lostice Synagogue, Art Center of Palacky University in Olomouc and in Educational and Culture Center of Jewish Museum in Prague. At the beginning of the year 2006 they again represented the town of Lostice in Prague, this time in a concert in the Spanish synagogue.
Mrs. Dinah Berland and the Mayor of the town of the Lostice Ctirad Lolek presented the first Fanny Neuda Award to members of the children’s choir Vetrnik and their choir mistress
Svatava Simkova during a ceremony in the Lostice synagogue. May 2006
Members of the children’s choir Vertnik and the choir mistress Svatava Simkova
shortly after a receiving the Fanny Neuda Prize in the Lostice synagogue. May 2006
For more information please see: Others – Fanny Neuda and Dinah Berland
News 2007
TERRY HAASS PRIZE
Terry Hass - French painter, graphic artist and sculptor
She was born in 1923 in Cesky Tesin and before the WWII lived with her mother and younger brother in the town of Mohelnice in Northern Moravia. They lived with her grandfather Ferdinad Grimm, who owned a house and fashion store there. (Presently Italian Cafe, ulice S. K. Neumanna 5). Terry studied in nearby Olomouc in a girl school Pöttingeum. After Nazis occupied the Sudetenland she and her mother and brother escaped to France. They feared for their lives because they were Jews. Shortly after their arrival to Paris in 1939 she started her studies at Ecole des Beaux –Arts. After the occupation of France they left for Portugal and later went to New York, where she received the Scholarship for Art Student's League. During next ten years in States Terry Haass studied art, worked in a studio under the renowned engraver Stanley W. Hayter and met leading figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others). In 1950 she began to teach graphic art at the New York City College and met Albert Einstein. His theory regarding time and space strongly influenced her artistic imagination.
By the end of 1951 Terry returned to Paris and started to work in the Lacouriere studio. Through her work in Paris she met many most important contemporary artists (Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, André Masson and others). Besides art she devoted her time to classical archeology. After receiving a degree in archeology from the Ecole du Louvre she took a part in archeology expeditions to Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iran and Afghanistan. Experience from expeditions influenced her art and also her writing. Terry's book Inanna, which was published in 1961, is inspired by Sumerian poetry from the third millennium BC. During 1960s she worked as an artist and also as archeologist, while from early 1970s she concentrates on art – especially on painting, graphic art and sculptures made of plexiglass or steel. Her work is shown in major galleries and museums in France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, United States and other countries.
Terry Haas received many medals and awards including the Silver Medal for sculpture from Bilan de l‘Art Contemporain, Quebec, Canada and the Gold Medal for sculpture from Akademie Leonardo da Vinci, Rom, Italy.
Her work is represented in several foremost public and private collections e.g.: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Art, San Francisco; Smithsonian Institute, Washnigton, DC; Kunstmuseum Basel; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Vile Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Muzeum umeni, Olomouc; Baronix Alix von Rothschild, Paris, J. J. Rockefeller j.r., New York and many others.
Grandfather of Terry Haass - Ferdinand Grimm died in Mohelnice in 1934 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Usov. Several relatives including her father perished in the holocaust. Terry Haass lives and works in Paris
Terry Haass Prize
The Prize will be awarded to students and teachers who take a part in the Respect and Tolerance educational-art programs for their best artwork, art installation or projects.
The winner or winning team will be selected by the committee consisting of members of the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance, art consultant and representatives of contributing donors (to the Prize fund). Terry Haass is the honorary member of the committee and she donated several books to the project.
The winning artwork will be shown in exhibitions and the reward will include
3 000 Czech Crowns (150.00USD) and the publication from Terry Haass.
Graphic artist Josef Dudek and his students of the Art School Olesska (Prague)
in the Lostice synagogue, where they received the 2006
Terry Haass Prize for their project Return of Light.
The project was prepared and exhibited in the Lostice synagogue in cooperation with the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance.
In 2007 they won with this project also the first Prize in the Art Competition in Prague
The 2007 Terry Haass Prize
The Prize was awarded to students of the grade 9.A (High School Demlova in Olomouc) and their teachers Blanka Hybaskova and Miroslava Dacicka. They are engaged in the Education-Art program since 2005 and their set of drawings and paintings show constantly very high artistic quality and also considerable knowledge of Jewish history and traditions.
For more information on Terry Haass please see: Mohelnice – Few fates of many.
In 2006 Ms. Berland came to the Czech Republic and to Lostice to study the materials prepared by the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance. Fanny Neuda became forgotten in our region, while her book was being published and republished in several countries. Thanks to the cooperation of Dinah Berland and Foundation, the Czech public is now being informed about Fanny Neuda and her work. In 2006 her book was translated to the Czech language by the foremost Hebraist Jaroslav Achab Haidler and some prayers were broadcasted by the Czech Radio. It was historically the first presentation of her Fanny Neuda’s texts in Czech.
The Prize will be awarded to students and teachers who take part in the Respect and Tolerance educational programs - for their best projects in the area of literature and music focused on promotion of human rights, mutual respect and understanding. The winner or winning team will be selected by the committee consisting of members of the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance and representatives of contributing donors to the Prize fund.
The winning projects will be presented in exhibitions and the reward will include 3 000 Czech Crowns (150.00USD) and the Fanny Neuda’ publications.
The 2005 Fanny Neuda Prize
On Wednesday May 31, 2006 the Prize was awarded to Mrs. Svatava Simkova and all members of the children’s choir Vetrnik from Lostice. In 2004 the choir prepared a program of Jewish songs, psalms and poetry. During the year 2005 they performed in openings of the Respect and Tolerance exhibitions in the Lostice Synagogue, Art Center of Palacky University in Olomouc and in Educational and Culture Center of Jewish Museum in Prague. At the beginning of the year 2006 they again represented the town of Lostice in Prague, this time in a concert in the Spanish synagogue.
Mrs. Dinah Berland and the Mayor of the town of the Lostice Ctirad Lolek presented the first Fanny Neuda Award to members of the children’s choir Vetrnik and their choir mistress Svatava Simkova during a ceremony in the Lostice synagogue. May 2006
Members of the children’s choir Vertnik and the choir mistress Svatava Simkova
shortly after a receiving the Fanny Neuda Prize in the Lostice synagogue. May 2006
She was born in 1923 in Cesky Tesin and before the WWII lived with her mother and younger brother in the town of Mohelnice in Northern Moravia. They lived with her grandfather Ferdinad Grimm, who owned a house and fashion store there. (Presently Italian Cafe, ulice S. K. Neumanna 5). Terry studied in nearby Olomouc in a girl school Pöttingeum. After Nazis occupied the Sudetenland she and her mother and brother escaped to France. They feared for their lives because they were Jews. Shortly after their arrival to Paris in 1939 she started her studies at Ecole des Beaux –Arts. After the occupation of France they left for Portugal and later went to New York, where she received the Scholarship for Art Student's League. During next ten years in States Terry Haass studied art, worked in a studio under the renowned engraver Stanley W. Hayter and met leading figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement (Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and others). In 1950 she began to teach graphic art at the New York City College and met Albert Einstein. His theory regarding time and space strongly influenced her artistic imagination.
By the end of 1951 Terry returned to Paris and started to work in the Lacouriere studio. Through her work in Paris she met many most important contemporary artists (Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, André Masson and others). Besides art she devoted her time to classical archeology. After receiving a degree in archeology from the Ecole du Louvre she took a part in archeology expeditions to Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iran and Afghanistan. Experience from expeditions influenced her art and also her writing. Terry's book Inanna, which was published in 1961, is inspired by Sumerian poetry from the third millennium BC. During 1960s she worked as an artist and also as archeologist, while from early 1970s she concentrates on art – especially on painting, graphic art and sculptures made of plexiglass or steel. Her work is shown in major galleries and museums in France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, United States and other countries.
Terry Haas received many medals and awards including the Silver Medal for sculpture from Bilan de l‘Art Contemporain, Quebec, Canada and the Gold Medal for sculpture from Akademie Leonardo da Vinci, Rom, Italy.
Her work is represented in several foremost public and private collections e.g.: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Art, San Francisco; Smithsonian Institute, Washnigton, DC; Kunstmuseum Basel; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Vile Paris; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Muzeum umeni, Olomouc; Baronix Alix von Rothschild, Paris, J. J. Rockefeller j.r., New York and many others.
Grandfather of Terry Haass - Ferdinand Grimm died in Mohelnice in 1934 and was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Usov. Several relatives including her father perished in the holocaust. Terry Haass lives and works in Paris
The winning artwork will be shown in exhibitions and the reward will include 3 000 Czech Crowns (150.00USD) and the publication from Terry Haass.
Graphic artist Josef Dudek and his students of the Art School Olesska (Prague)
in the Lostice synagogue, where they received the 2006
Terry Haass Prize for their project Return of Light.
The project was prepared and exhibited in the Lostice synagogue in cooperation with the Foundation for the Respect and Tolerance.
In 2007 they won with this project also the first Prize in the Art Competition in Prague
The Prize was awarded to students of the grade 9.A (High School Demlova in Olomouc) and their teachers Blanka Hybaskova and Miroslava Dacicka. They are engaged in the Education-Art program since 2005 and their set of drawings and paintings show constantly very high artistic quality and also considerable knowledge of Jewish history and traditions.