The penultimate exhibition of his 22 years as director at the Jewish Museum in Hohenems is once again entirely to his liking: setting an anchor in the local area, but then wandering far into the distance and asking the big questions. With The Easterners – Jewish researchers and adventurers in search of their own in the foreign Hanno Loewy is entering the home stretch towards retirement. Curated by Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Dinah Ehrenfreund, the show deals with the development of Oriental studies and shows how Jewish researchers came closer to Islam by studying their roots. Questions of communication are asked that are urgently needed today.
