Women’s Rights and Gender Roles

Women’s Rights and the Jewish Women’s Movement

Objects, documents and images on the subject (in German)

Online Collections

Painting of an orange on a blue background.

Seder Plate by Harriete Estel Berman

A feminist Passover custom

From Our Holdings

The Artist and the Scientist

On the Berlin based sisters Gertrud and Margarete Zuelzer. A project as part of a Year of Voluntary Service in Culture (FSJ Kultur)

Online Feature
2022

Plate adorned with a portrait drawing of Rahel Varnhagen, next to it a fork and the inscription Hörmahl: Feinkost für die Ohren.

“Hörmahl:” A Feast for the Ears

Dinner with Lina Morgenstern, Julie Elias, Rahel Varnhagen and Fromet Mendelssohn, in German

Podcast
2021/22

Sharon Adler sitting on a bench in a plexiglass box which is open at the front

An Unequivocal Zest for Debate

Sharon Adler on the importance to exhibit women’s work and their impact

Interview
2021

Messy stack of books with titles such as Torah Queeries, Becoming Eve, Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, and Mentsh

LGBTQI+ & Judaism

An anecdotal glossary by Debora Antmann

Essay
2021

Left: black and white portrait photo of a young lady. She wears a high-necked dress with hat in the style of the 1910s. Right: cover of a worn diary with leather binding and the golden lettering “Tage-Buch” (diary).

“No, I Want Dr. O.”

Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12)

Online Feature
2021

Black and white photo of a young woman in winter clothes next to a car on a country road.

Bread and Roses

On International Women’s Day, Christina Hecht takes a look at various archives

Online Feature
2019

The Dress of the Unfaithful Wife

Talk with Andi LaVine Arnovitz, Amy K. Milligan, and Emily D. Bilski on the role of women in religious Judaism

Audio Recording
9 May 2017

All Sorts of Stories

The actor Johanna Wokalek reads from Bertha Pappenheim’s German translation of the Maase book, in German

Audio Recording
21 Nov 2016

Feminist Approaches to Judaism and Islam

Dialogical lecture Series Judaism and Islam in the Diaspora

Video Recording
14 Apr 2016

JMB Journal 11: Women

Publication
2014

What’s the story with women rabbis?

What role do gender themes play in Judaism?

Question of the Month
2013

Quasicrystals

A talk about Jewish questions and the lives of women in Eva Menasses novel

Book Review
2013

Artistic staging: The biblical Ruth and Naomi collecting left over onions in nowadays Tel-Aviv.

The Long Night of Tikkun

or what we can learn from loving women

Essay
May 2013

Historical photograph of a black and white portrait of a woman.

The Diary of Gertrud Bleichröder

Notes from 1988, from the series Zeitzeugnisse aus dem Jüdischen Museum Berlin, in German

Publication
2002

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