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\"5\"Exhibition of the Founding of the Technion and the War of the Languages that was part of it has opened at the Haifa City Museum<\/h1>\n
In a ceremony last night attended by Brigadier-General (Ret.) Hedva Almog, acting and deputy mayor of the city of Haifa, and the president of the Technion, Professor Peretz Lavie, and with the participation of the Technion administration, deans, the directors of Haifa\u2019s museums and many guests, the unique exhibition \u201cThe War of the Languages: Technikum vs. Technion\u201d opened in the Haifa City Museum. The opening marked the start of the events celebrating the Technion\u2019s centennial. The cornerstone of both the country\u2019s first academic institution and the Middle East\u2019s first technological-scientific university was laid on April 11th<\/sup>, 1912. The original name of the Technion was \u201cTechnikum\u201d.<\/div>\n

The founding of the Technion was a defining cultural event for the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel at that time, hugely important for the city of Haifa and later on \u2013 made an inestimable contribution to the state of Israel in all fields, and especially in the area of infrastructure, defense and economics.<\/p>\n

The exhibition\u2019s curator, Sventlana Reingold, said that she is coming to tell the story of the Technion\u2019s founding, which took more than fifteen years, from 1908-1924. During this period, a battle over the teaching language in the institution, dubbed the \u201cWar of the Languages,\u201d raged.<\/p>\n

The \u201cwar\u201d finished with the victory of the Hebrew language. This was a \u201cwar\u201d of the people that shaped the national identity of the Hebrew settlement and was one of the milestones in the process of creating a new Hebrew culture.<\/p>\n

The exhibition presents an important and significant part of the process of building Israeli culture, by showing the different positions driving the processes that produced the victory of the Hebrew language: formulization of the idea for establishing a technological-scientific institution in the land of Israel by the \u201cAid Association of German Jews\u201d in Berlin; the Zionist educational perspective; selecting the site of the \u201cTechnikum\u201d; the viewpoint of Alexander Baerwald \u2013 the architect who translated the vision into architectural language and designed the magnificent building on the slopes of the Carmel; the \u201cWar of the Languages\u201d and its implications for the teaching language of the Reali School and of the \u201cTechnikum\u201d; the move of the \u201cTechnikum\u201d to nearby the Zionist Agency and the opening of its doors in 1924.<\/p>\n

The exhibition has hundreds of photographs, films, books, models, documents, letters and rare collection items that are being shown to the public for the first time.<\/p>\n

At the opening ceremony Nisim Tal, general manager of the Haifa museums, said that the exhibition was also inaugurating a new hall in the Templar school, which had been added to the Templar Assembly Hall, as part of the Haifa City Museums. He stressed that in all of the Ottoman Empire of that period, when the Technion was founded, there was not even one technological university worthy of its name.<\/p>\n

Ms. Hedva Almog said that the exhibition brings to light a fundamental and valuable subject of concern for us in Israel \u2013 the subject of the Hebrew language. \u201cHappily for us, the \u2018battle\u2019 about the Technion\u2019s teaching language was decided a hundred years ago, but the war of the Hebrew language continues to this very day,\u201d she added. \u201cThe language of today sounds like gibberish \u2013 a mixture of sounds that sometimes, for someone listening from the side, seems to be sounds that have no connection to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Technion president, Prof. Peretz Lavie, said that even the giants that envisioned the founding of the Technion more than a hundred years ago, did not dare dream that the Technion would be a world leading technological-scientific university, from which two Noble prize winners for chemistry, Professors Avraham Hershko and Aaron Ciechanower<\/em>, would emerge, in which the anti-Parkinson drug Azilect would be developed by Professors Moussa Youdim and John Fineberg, whose researchers would make decisive contributions to such important fields and whose graduates would contribute so much to the defense and economic resilience of the state of Israel.<\/p>\n

Above (from right to left): The curator, Svetlana Reingold, Hedva Almog, Prof. Peretz Lavie and Nisim Tal. Photograph: Yossi Carasso.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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