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Lay-lah, Lay-lah 2025. Photo by Steve Weinik

‍ ‍Lay-lah, Lay-lah 2025. Photo by Steve Weinik

Forward

A mural dedicated
to Holocaust memory
in Babylonian, Yiddish
and Chinese

By PJ Grisar

September 2025

Dedication of Lay-lah, Lay-lah 2025. Photo by Jessica Griffin

Mural Arts Philadelphia
September 2025

Language of Remembrance:
Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson on “Lay-lah Lay-lah”

By Aviva Kapust, Chief Advancement and Impact Officer, Mural Arts Philadelphia

The philadelphia Inquirer

A new mural dedicated to Holocaust remembrance is unveiled on Ben Franklin Parkway

By Earl Hopkins

September 2025

Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC),
University of Hamburg: UHH
February 2025
‘We Exist in the Gaps Between these Fixed Identities’

Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC),
University of Hamburg: UHH
February 2025
Artist-in-residence

So Mayer
April 2021
Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson’s Wordscapes, Pathos Theatre Munich, featuring “The Broken Open”
By So Mayer

The philadelphia Inquirer
November 2024
The Holocaust Memorial Plaza will be adorned with a new mural in 2025. Berlin based artist Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson will be the creative force behind it.
by Earl Hopkins

WHYY
November 2024
An Israeli muralist has been selected for Philly’s Holocaust Memorial Plaza. Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, based in Berlin, will design a Holocaust mural for a prominent intersection on the Parkway.
By Peter Crimmins

Jewish Exponent
November 2024
Israeli Artist Looks to Bring Personal Pain to Public Mural
By Andrew Guckes

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Migration
Fall 2024
Exodus of Language: The Silent Story Behind Morphing Glyphs
By Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson
Edited by Brigid Maher, Loredana Polezzi and Rita Wilson

The journey through the evolution of language and typography presented in this chapter illuminates the intricate interplay between cultural migration, power dynamics and the visual representation of communication. The artwork The Nation ’s Nerves Morph in Silence and its exploration of Hebrew typography encapsulate the poignant narratives of displacement, integration and the struggle for cultural preservation.

literaturseiten München
6.2023
„I want to share“ Die bildende Künstlerin Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson bringt Poesie auf die Wände des Pathos-Theaters
Von Katrin Diehl

Stirworld
12.2022
Immersive public art redefining our relationship to public spaces.
Best of 2022: STIR looks back at public artwork from around the world that captivated viewers through light, augmented reality, scale, and more.
By Vatsala Sethi

Stirworld
7.2022
STIRring Dreams: 'Pseudo-territory' brings a literary theory to life via augmented reality
by Manu Sharma

Artseverywhere

Encountering Pseudo-Territory

By Anna Elena Torres

ARTFORUM

8.2022
STATES OF MIND
Toward an alternative future for Jewish art
by Solomon Brager

Hyperallergic

7.2022
At the Venice Biennale,
a Border-Defying Yiddishland Pavilion
by Chelsea Haines

Berliner Zeitung
10.2022
LABA Berlin: „Wir wollen jüdische Kunst aus dem Ghetto herausholen“
Von Hanno Hauenstein

Spitz Magazine Podcast
10.2022
Cutting lines: Ella Ponizovsky vandalizes the Talmud in order to voice a female voice that is missing from it
Interview hosted by Tal Alon

Deutschlandfunk
11.2022
Das jüdische Zukunftslabor LABA
Von David Dambitsch

Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

05.2021

Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson:
Künstlerin und Schöpferin der hybriden Kalligrafie
Von Sharon Adler

Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's

Studies & Gender Issues

2022
Present Figures: Cultural Hybridity and Contradicting Emotions.
An Interview With Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson.
By Nehama Grenimann Bauch

Jewish Currents
01.2023
Yiddishland at the Venice Biennale
By Stanislaw Welbel

In Geveb
10.2021
Montage-Murals: Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson’s “Present Figures” (Berlin 2021)
by Anna Elena Torres

Hey Alma.
05.2021
Yiddish Poems in Arabic Script Make a Surprising Appearance in Berlin
By Mersiha Bruncevic

Rhein-Neckar Zeitung
08.2021
Eine bunte Wand voller Statements
Von Sebastian Klump

BVG - Das Magazin Der Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe
4.2021
Gegen das Vergessen
Von Sharon Adler

Jüdische Allgemeine
04.2021
Poesie in der Pandemie
Von Christine Schmitt

Der Tagesspiegel

Tanz der Zeichen
von Gunda Bartels

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FREE
BERLIN #9

04.2021

Asymptote Journal

10.2020
Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson, Hybrid Calligraphy
By Eva Heisler

Hyperallergic

8.2020
Is There a New Yiddish Contemporary Visual Art?
By Yevgeniy Fiks

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Berliner Woche
3.2021
Mehrsprachige Wandgemälde
Von Thomas Frey

B.Z.
03.2021
Diese Künstlerin bringt Farbe in den Kiez
Von Isabel Pfnnkuche

Kunstleben Berlin‭ - ‬Magazin Für Kunst In Berlin‭.
3.2021
Kunst trotz Corona: Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson trifft Debora Vogel im öffentlichen Raum Berlins

Canvas
The Story Behind the CANVAS Logo

2020
Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson and Lou Cove

Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson working on the first hybrid calligraphy mural in the series Among Refugees Generation Y in Mensch Meier, Storkower Str. Berlin. Photo by Lea Fabrikant, 26.3.19-03.jpg

Asylum Arts Magazine
10.2019
Literature Meets Visual Art
By Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson

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ZK/U
04.2019
Among Refugees Generation Y‭
Prose As Hybrid Calligraphy In The Public Space Of Berlin

In Geveb
12.2019
INTERVIEW: In Search of “Berlin Grandfathers”: An Interview with Arndt Beck and Ella Ponizovsky-Bergelson
by Ekaterina Kuznetsova

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PROTOCOLS
05.19
Among Refugees Generation Y

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Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition / No. 57 / Volume XV
10.2020
Súčasné umenie jidiš
By Yevgeniy Fiks

Jüdische Allgemeine
10.2017
Kombinat in Marzahn - Neun israelische Künstler zeigen ihre Werke im Berliner Osten
von Franziska Knupper

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SZUM
12.2020
Współczesna sztuka jidysz
By Yevgeniy Fiks

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Kol Hair
10.2019
Contemporary Jewish art along the city

Forward
09.2019
Berlin Artists Weave Yiddish Poetry Into Their Work
By Katerina Kuznetzova

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Time Out Israel
04.2017
Creating ORDER through disorder - Bergelson's solo exhibition explores identity at the Alamacén Gallery
By Jennifer Greenberg

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Secret Tel Aviv
04.2017
ORDER - Solo Exhibition by Ella Ponizovsky Bergelson

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Portfolio
04.2017
Order in Almacén