[Review]
The last significant transformation of the replica of the Deller Sukkah took place with its exile from Jerusalem, following the Sala-Manca Group’s stay in Toronto, Canada, in the summer of 2024.
In Toronto, it was erected in the backyard of the artists’ rented home for the festival of Sukkot, 5785 (2024). In doing so, the replica completed a journey that was, in many ways, the reverse of the one undertaken by the Deller Sukkah from Fischach approximately 90 years earlier—both geographically (being taken out of Israel) and functionally: while the replica had been presented in Israel within museum spaces and art events, in Toronto it was used for the first time as a familial sukkah, installed for the entire holiday.
The painting of Jerusalem on the wall, which, in Toronto, was positioned to serve as the mizrah (eastern wall)—began to function as an object of longing and yearning, much as Jerusalem had symbolized these same sentiments in the Fischach Sukkah when it was located in Germany.
