23 March to 15 July 2012 Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s
Symposium
What's on
After the exhibition is over
Berlin Transit. Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s
In case you missed the exhibition, the button "Traces of the Past" on this website will keep you informed about some of the exhibition topics.
No longer on display
at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Russians Jews Germans
Photographs by Michael Kerstgens from 1992 to the Present
Duration of the exhibition
from 20 April to 26 August 2012
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstr. 9-14
10969 Berlin
Eric F. Ross Gallery, Libeskind Building, ground level
The photographs by Michael Kerstgens extend the historical view of the theme of migration right up to the present and trace the question of how Jewish life in Germany has changed with the immigration of Russian-speaking Jews through the 20th century.
Please feel free to read about topics pertaining to our exhibition "Russians Jews Germans", - which is no longer on display - on the exhibition website.
Exhibition Catalog
Published by Wallstein Verlag
Berlin Transit
Jüdische Migranten aus Osteuropa in den 1920er Jahr
(German language edition only)
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View into Schendelgasse, photo: Herbert Sonnenfeld, Berlin, ca. 1935–1938
© Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with funds provided by Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin
24 March 2012, 9 am
Museum – Science – Family Memory. Perspectives of an Unknown History of Migration
Symposium organized by the Free University of Berlin in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin complementing the exhibition "Berlin Transit: Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s"
A one-day symposium complementing the exhibition "Berlin Transit. Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s" is on the program. The symposium will further examine themes from the exhibition and the interaction between museum, research, and family memories, exploring a largely forgotten chapter of Berlin’s migratory history.
Panel 1
9 – 10 am
Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel
Pictures of an Exhibition
(in German)
Staged Science? The Creation of a Historico-Cultural Exhibition Leonore Maier (Jewish Museum Berlin) The Scheunenviertel. A Historico-Critical Image Analysis Ulrike Pilarczyk (TU Braunschweig) Moderation Gertrud Pickhan (Institute for Eastern European Studies, Berlin)
10 - 11 am
Guided tour with curators through the "Berlin Transit" exhibition
Coffee break
Panel 2
11.30 am – 1 pm
City and Identity
Self-Image and Public Image of Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin
(in German)
"Berliner Luftmenschen." Eastern European Jewish Migrants in the Weimar Republic Anne-Christin Saß (Institute for Eastern European Studies, Berlin) "Grenadierstraße" – A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn (Reading) Fabian Schnedler Jewish Identities in the Novel "Grenadierstraße" Alina Bothe (Institute for Eastern European Studies, Berlin) Moderation Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin)
Lunch break
Panel 3
2 – 3.30 pm
Fighting the Bolsheviks!
The Debates Surrounding Revolution and Pogroms in Berlin
(in German and English)
A Forgotten Film from the Archive of Eastern European Jewry Efim Melamed (Project Coordinator Judaica in Ukraine) The Stereotype of the "Jewish Bolshevik" and the Debates over the Ukrainian Pogroms in Berlin Christoph Dieckmann (Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt/Main): Moderation Ingo Loose (Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich)
Coffee break
Panel 4
4 – 5.30 pm
What Remained?
As told by descendants of Eastern European Jewish Migrants
(in English)
With Efrat Carmon (Jerusalem), Zeev Lewin (Ramat Gan), Ann Pasternak Slater (Oxford) and Mira Zakai (Givataim) Moderation Verena Dohrn (Institute for Eastern European Studies, Berlin) and Aubrey Pomerance (Jewish Museum Berlin)
24 March 2012, 9 am
Jewish Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, 10969 Berlin,
Old Building, second level, Great Hall
Admission free
Organized by the research project "Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel. East European Jewish Migrants in Berlin during the 1920/30s" at the Institute for Eastern European Studies, Free University of Berlin in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin
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