Material resources to support creativity by public and private sources is often essential. They are enabling conditions. Money alone cannot produce creativity, but poverty can stifle it. Yet the opposite can be true also. Poverty and want – stress – can also encourage creativity. Leonardo Da Vinci and Rembrandt are two of the greatest painters of all time. Leonardo was rich, funded by kings and popes until the end of his life. He never knew want. Rembrandt, in contrast, did not benefit from his country’s economic “Golden Age” and was never able to husband his resources. Once, he had to sell his belongings to avoid bankruptcy. There is a deep sadness in his late self-portraits that express his life’s miseries. Did poverty damage or enrich his creativity? Apart from money, the promise of fame, the respect of one’s peers and other factors can also encourage creativity. But for policy makers, financial support is the most obvious and direct way to do so.
Article Library / Annual Assessment
2017 Annual Assessment
- Foreword
- Part 1
- Part 2: Dimensions of Jewish Well-being
- Geopolitics
- Geopolitical Landscape
- JPPI’s 2017 Brainstorming Conference – Integrative Summary
- Upsetting the Existing International Order
- Upsetting the Existing Domestic Political Order in the West
- Part 2: Shifts in Israel that Could Influence the West’s Approach to Israel and the Jewish People
- The Rise of the Religious Nationalist Right in Israel
- Strengthening Israel’s Jewish Characteristics
- Shifts in Israel’s Strategic Position and Power
- Demographic Shifts
- Challenges and Dilemmas that Call for Policy Measures
- Formulating Israel’s policy vis-à-vis the Trump administration on diplomatic and ideological matters
- Formulating policy toward Europe’s far-right nationalist parties
- Shaping a strategy that considers disruptions of the current world order and the rise of new non-Western powers
- Improving Israel-Diaspora relations in light of trends of polarization and alienation in the West
- Steps to strengthen Diaspora Jewry given the trends challenging the centrality of communities and institutions
- Monitoring illiberal internal Israeli trends and curbing initiatives negatively affect the image and values of the Jewish state
- Comprehensive Three-Dimensional Anti-Semitism Index
- Demography
- Bonds Within and Between Communities
- Identity Formation and Expression
- Material Resources
- People of the Book
- Geopolitics
- Part 3: Feature Articles
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