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- “I see a land bright and clear, and the time’s comin’ near When we’ll live in this land, you and me…”
- “I wish more people would look in my eyes instead of at my scarf”
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- “I’m Not Drawing the Big Arc Back to 1936”
- “In the quarry, children freeze in the rusty air”
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- “Was Goethe a Jew too?”
- “We’re no longer guests, we belong.”
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- “When civilization goes wrong, there is blood:” A brief exchange with Peter Greenaway
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- “All for Love”
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- “Go down Moses” and an Orange on the Seder Plate
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- “If you define ‘crisis’ as a ‘turning point,’ then post-war Europe appears to have arrived at such a point.”
- “It was only later that I had my doubts.” A conversation about mixed emotions triggered by ritual circumcision
- “It was then that I saw the tortured stand before their tormentors”
- “Jerusalem is like a former boyfriend“
- “Kiddush Asylum”
- “L’chaim! To life!”
- “Now we’ll follow the intrepid path that Lassalle led us to!”
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- “The best solution would be that the baby is a girl.” Insights into an internal Jewish debate about circumcision – in 1919
- “The European Maccabi Games in a Nazi Stadium: that sends quite a strong message”
- “The Fourth Wall”
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- “We were being driven like hunted animals!”
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- “Whatever you want to see – you come to Jerusalem, and you can find it there.”
- Jewish Places goes live today!
- The Dress of the Unfaithful Wife
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- InderKinder
- Kol Nidre and the “Civil Improvement of the Jews” – Controversies throughout the Ages
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- 27th Federal Museum Trainees Conference
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- A “Memorial to the Idiocy of Nazi Censorship”
- A Childhood in Flatow
- A Circumcision to keep the (family) peace
- A Clock Made of Clay and Cocoa in a Pot of Feathers
- A Film Still in the Mail Box
- A Golem is Going Around Berlin
- A great example of what Germany’s achieved in recent years: release him!
- A House on the Road
- A Kind of Family Gathering – Bitter Herbs and Their Relatives in the Diaspora Garden
- A Lasting Disturbance
- A Letter from the Museum
- A Library Leaps Across the Street
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- A New Beginning
- A New Home in Sweden
- A New World
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- A Story of Migration that’s Suitable for Children
- A Visit from Iran
- Abraham’s Multilingual Sons and Daughters
- Access – or no access
- Achtung GOLEM!
- Action Reconciliation International Youth Summer Camp in Osnabrück at the Augustaschacht Memorial
- Adrift in an Immaculate White Void
- After Installation Comes De-Installation
- After the exhibition is before the exhibition
- Alarm Clocks, Cell Phones, and Table with Nothing on it
- An Exhibition in Book Form
- An Unsolvable Mystery?
- App through the Museum
- Are these the Jewish Rebels of Tomorrow?
- Art Against Forgetting
- Art and Sanctuary: An Encounter Project in the Blue Room
- Art to Go
- Art, Trash, and One-Way Realism
- At Eye Level
- Atheism and a Critique of Religion in a Children’s Book
- Barefoot in the Dark
- Bees, Candles, Roots, and Remembrance
- Beit: A House Project for Schoolchildren
- Best Blog Award
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- Bezalel’s Progeny
- Big Feelings, Big Drama
- Boris Lurie – Trying Out an Approach for High School Students
- Boris Lurie & Me
- Born in 1918, two minutes from his parents’ perfumery on Kurfürstendamm
- Bread and Golems
- Bring Your Swim Trunks
- Cabinets Full of Photographs, Contact Sheets, and Letters
- Ceramics for all situations
- Chag Sameach!
- Challah and Comfortable Shoes: A Year of Civil Service at the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Clatter-Doilies
- Closing the Representation Gap
- Coal-black language
- Collecting as a “Way of Life”
- Coming Home to Poland
- Complex, interwoven, and emotional
- Confident Women in Veils
- Congratulations to the Refik-Veseli-School!
- Conservation of Letters and Seals
- Constantin Brunner in Context
- Contraband on Display
- Conversion and Controversy
- Cooking and Keeping Silent
- Cycling Holiday
- Dandy and Cowboy
- David Hockney visits R.B. Kitaj’s “Obsessions”
- David’s circumcision: Why a question mark can also tell a story
- Do You Know Catalonia?
- Doing Something Wrong
- Energy galore: encountering Howard Katz
- Escaping the Escape Points
- Esther on a Roll
- Eva Menasse’s Novel Quasikristalle:
- Exhibition Tip: Shalom. 3 Photographers Look at Germany
- Farewell letter, ink on paper
- Fascinating Family History
- Fingers instead of money?
- Flags, Tambourines, and Esther Pockets – Purim, a little different
- Fleeing – Then and Now
- Food for Thought
- For Love of the Catalogs
- Forgotten Women Artists
- Friends Sixteen Times Removed and a Camel on a World Tour
- Friendship You Can Touch
- Fritz Stern
- From idyllic landscape views to the trenches: seeing the First World War through an army doctor’s photographs
- From poster stamps to animal card collections: on small collectors and big crazes
- From the ceramic jug to the Pineapple Goblet: Working with archival items
- From Wagner to the Weather
- Gauguinian Expectations
- Generation “kosher light”— On the Lifestyle of Young Jews of Russian Descent
- Granddaughters,
- Greek Jews During the Nazi Occupation
- Growing up in the Auerbach Orphanage
- Half a Birthday, Double the Joy
- Halftime for (the) GOLEM — What Do Our Visitors Have to Say?
- Handwriting Practice on Slate
- Hannah Arendt—A New Look at a Discerning Political Analyst of Her Own Time
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- Hanukkah
- Hanukkah – How-To?
- Hanukkah and Design
- Hanukkah commercialized
- Hanukkah meets Christmas: Chrismukkah
- Hanukkah Songs
- Happy Moments for a Curator Ilse Bing’s Photograph “New York—The Elevated and Me”
- Happy Purim!
- Horror and Magic in the Silent Golem Movies
- Hot Tears of Ice
- How about more tolerance for ambiguity?
- How Are You Spending the High Holidays this Year?
- How I Discovered My Inner Hans-Jürgen:
- How the Bosnian Becomes a Bavarian
- Hybrid Identities Instead of “Überfremdung”
- I’m Jewish. Wanna Check?
- Ich glaub’ nie mehr an eine Frau (Never Trust A Woman)—The Sound for the Film
- In a Vienna Coffeehouse, 1935
- In an Instant. Photographs by Fred Stein
- In Blessed Memory of Heinz-Joachim Aris
- In Court and on Television:
- In Memory of Rafael Roth
- In the Beginning Was … Scripture
- In the Shadow of the Mengele Myth
- In the Showcase
- In the Sleeping Car with Ten Hand-puppets and a Travel Hanukkah Candelabrum
- In World War I
- Intense Encounters in “Jerusalem”
- Interactive Tracking in Berlin’s Spandau District — Attempt Nr. 1!
- Iron Crosses in Kreuzberg
- Israeli Pop Culture in the Hessian Countryside
- Israelis in Berlin: between the hype and the reality
- Israelis in Germany – Ideological Debates and Changing Identities
- James Bond on Nazi Germany
- Jerusalem for All the Senses
- Jewish Discussions and Trends
- Jewish Halloween
- Jewish Life in Germany Today: Where Are the Young People? An Interview with Karen Körber.
- Jewish Script and Love By Contract
- Jewrovision 2018
- Joyful and Yet Threatening:
- Kitaj’s Puzzle
- Kıymet or: A Cinematic Tribute to My Grandmother
- Lemon and Almond Cake
- Leo Prochownik
- Let’s Wrap This Thing Up! The Vielfalt in Schulen (Diversity in Schools) Program—Almost Over and Done
- Lionel Blue’s Backdoor to Heaven
- Lolek and Bolek
- Ludwig Guttmann, Father of the Paralympics: A Pioneer like Robert Koch, a Visionary like Coubertin
- Maggots, Cookies, Art
- Meanwhile in the Box …
- Memorandum: A Documentary of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial
- Mensch or Might?
- Missing Elements of Literature
- Modern Poetry Encounters an Object of History
- Moves to Establish a Research Library for Jewish Art
- Moving Encounters
- Music in the Mountains
- Musical Discoveries and a Family of Artists between Jerusalem and Berlin
- My Favorite Photograph: “Little Italy”
- My Favorite Photograph: “Newspaper Hat”
- My First Business Trip as a Museum Assistant
- Naked Ladies, Political Messages
- Names Come to Life
- Names have meaning…
- Neither King David nor Cilly Kugelmann can solve this problem
- New arrivals: artwork for the vending machine
- New Articles on jmberlin.de
- New Customs for the New Year
- New Forms of Protest
- No Revolvers in the Jewish Museum
- Not What They Expected
- Obituary for Coco Schumann
- Obituary for Reinhard Rürup
- On belonging and family debates: a conversation about a circumcision that didn’t happen
- On international and other remembrance days
- On Lovable Old Coots and “a kind of infection” Called Love
- On Omission
- On the hamster wheel of argumentation
- One Film, Three Opinions
- One Golem to Go, Please!
- Only Linguistic Morons?
- Our “Diversity in Schools” Program: the Whys, Wherefores, and Lessons Learned
- Our Top “Muscle Jews”
- Oy Vey, Meshugge
- Painting Music
- Peddlers with Caftans, Sidelocks – and Umbrellas: Images of Jews around 1900
- Perplexing legacy
- Photographic testimony: on the history of the Herbert Sonnenfeld collection
- Photographs that peel away the masks – A conversation with Ruthe Zuntz
- Pickelhauben, honor crosses and / or Germania? On the differences and similarities between two exhibitions about the First World War currently on show in Berlin
- Placing Europe in the Museum
- Practicing Our Storytelling Skills
- Praise, Every Day:
- Preparing for Marriage and Minding the Past
- Question of the Month:
- Question of the Month:
- Question of the Month:
- Question of the month: “Why do women have to cover their hair with a wig or scarf after getting married?”
- Question of the Month: “Are there gay Jews?”
- Question of the Month:“What role do gender themes play?”
- Quite Best Practice
- R.B. Kitaj, Philip Roth and I…
- R.B. Kitaj, the Bibliophile
- Re-thinking Migration
- Reconsidering What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
- Remembrance as Time Passes
- Return of the Café Nagler
- Riddled with References
- Ronny Loewy,
- Salvaged from the Trash: the Photo Albums of the Artist Olga Irén Fröhlich
- Saskia Boddeke: “Their pain will be our pain”
- Saving a Cat
- Schools in Hannover, a Jerusalem Hotel, and the Search for their Connection
- Searching for the New Germans
- Season’s Greetings
- Shana Tova u’Metuka!
- Shared Roleplay, Undermined Certainties, Red Rooms and Potato Peelers
- Shortly before Time Begins:
- Shot by German Police in 1946
- Small, Yet Packs a Punch…
- Soccer & the First World War
- Soccer Friends
- Sources who Speak – a Little Online Tour
- Sparrows, 4 Euro, and the Stuff of a City
- Statistics and Sticky Notes
- Stories of Heroes and Wrangling with History
- STÜRMER-Bars
- Suddenly, a Knock on the Door
- Swimming with Libeskind
- The “Golden V”
- The Appeal of Playing with Limited Space
- The Art of Tahrir Square: Adam Thirlwell’s Kapow!
- The Art Vending Machine Gets an Extended Run with “Glass Interiors” by Daniel Wiesenfeld
- The Big Clean-Up
- The Blow of a Hammer in the Rap of the Gavel
- The Boredom of Peaceful Coexistence – an Interview with Ármin Langer
- The Colors of Light
- The Deadly Attack on a Vision of Peace
- The Disgust and Revulsion of an Artist for whom the World No Longer Made Sense
- The First “Kindertransport” Rescue Mission
- The Hanukkah Game
- The Involuntary Moose and Other Metamorphoses
- The Jewish Cultural Center in Berlin, 1990 – 2010
- The Legacy of a Long Career: Success Against All Odds
- The Long Night of Tikkun,
- The Many Faces of Isaac and Ismael
- The Power of Hair
- The Psychology of Making Portraits
- The Restitution of the Banquet
- The story of Uri Kozower
- The Taste of Hanukkah
- The U.S. Jewish Vote, 2012
- The Whole Truth: a Continuing Discussion
- The World in Miniature – On Conserving and Storing a Stamp Album
- There’s a Fair Upstairs,
- Three Images, Two Artists and One Wall
- Towards an Online Platform for Jewish History and Culture
- Tradition and Revolution: Female Spiritual Leaders
- Travelling Exhibits
- Trees, Fruit, and a Breath of New Age
- Trials of a Truth Seeker
- Trials of a Truth Seeker (Part Two)
- Vending Machine Art
- Virtually Every Form of Human Coexistence
- Walter Frankenstein’s Life in Images
- Weekend plans: AKE DIKHEA?
- What if?
- What Memories Do You Associate with the High Holidays?
- What Significance Do the High Holidays Have for You?
- What was the event of the year 2012 for you?
- What was the sound of the year 2012 for you?
- What was the thing of the year 2012 for you?
- What was the word of the year 2012 for you?
- What You Saw, When You Lay on Sigmund Freud’s Couch
- When a Certificate Was Not Only a Piece of Paper
- Where Would You Go?
- Why the Jewish Museum Berlin has every reason to finally open a children’s museum in 2019
- Wire-frame Geese and Elevator Signs
- With Love from Fromet and Moses Mendelssohnplatz!
- Woody Allen’s German Typewriter