Music

Exhibition view: one visitor stands under a sound tube, another sits in a sound bunk

Musicroom

Jewish music in all its diversity in the core exhibition

All About…

Portrait Yoed Sorek

“The Lonely Living Stars”

Concert for the Memorial Day of the Victims of National Socialism, in German

Video Recording
27 Jan 2022

Five musicians making music on stage

intonations

The festival headed by Elena Bashkirova was our guest at the Jewish Museum Berlin every year from 2012 to 2022

Chamber Music Festival
2012–2022

A woman with short gray hair (Hetty Berg) stands in front of a Hanukkah menorah.

Hanukkah at the JMB

Hanukkah 2021: Candle lighting with Yiddish songs, instrumental music and dance

Video Recording
2 Dec 2021

Handwritten and drawn concert announcement

A Concert in the Cabin

Concert announcement, Onchan Internment Camp, Isle of Man, 1941, gift of Ms. Anne Marx in loving memory of her husband Carl Theodore, 2013

20 Years, 21 Objects
2021

Graphic in blue-green tones: people on deckchairs in the museum garden, in the background the glass courtyard

My Jewish Soundtrack

With Daniel Libeskind, Daniel Kahn, Roy Siny, Sharon, and Dmitrij Kapitelman, moderated by Shelly Kupferberg, mainly in German

Video Recording
29 Jul 2021

An accordion player and a singer make music on stage

Hanukkah at the JMB

Candle lighting with Yiddish songs, instrumental music and dance

Video Recording
12 Dec 2020

Rapper Ben Salomo

Jewish Power. What exactly is Jewish music?

By Fabian Schnedler

Essay
2019

Portrait photo of an elderly woman looking friendly into the camera.

The Laskers from Breslau (Wrocław)

A family reunion in music and words

Video Recording
27 Jan 2019

The color photograph shows Elena Bashkirova in a black blazer and a violet patterned scarf. In the background is the Jerusalem exhibition.

“We’re no longer guests, we belong.”

Elena Bashkirova, director of the chamber music “festival intonations,” spoke with us about Jerusalem

Interview
2018

An elderly gentleman (Coco Schumann) sits in front of a screen, he looks into the camera. On the screen Coco Schumann can be seen at a concert, he is playing the guitar.

Obituary for Coco Schumann

Jazz musician, Berliner, member of the jazz band Ghetto Swingers founded in the concentration camp Theresienstadt

Blog
2018

“This four-minute performance means three to four months of training”

About the song and dance competition Jewrovision

Interview
Feb 2017

Badge with the inscription Radical.

Radical Jewish Culture

The New York Music Scene Since 1990

Exhibition
8 Apr to 24 Jul 2011

Black lines on a brown background.

JMB Journal 4: Radical Jewish?

Special issue for the Radical Jewish Culture exhibition

Publication
2011

A piano player with his head bowed, resting on his hand.

It must schwing

Blue Note – Photography by Francis Wolff and Jimmy Katz

Exhibition
30 Oct 2009 to 7 Feb 2010

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