Special Exhibitions
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Entrance to the Konditorei Kempler and the "Krakauer Café" on Grenadierstraße, Berlin 1926 © Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Hillel Kempler
Michael Kerstgens, The Bride and Groom Taya Levin and Savelli Mackin arrive at the Synagoge at Pestalozzistraße, Berlin 1992
R. B. Kitaj, If Not, Not, 1975–1976
R. B. Kitaj, If Not, Not, 1975–1976
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Special Exhibition
3/23/2012
to 7/15/2012
Berlin Transit: Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s
As a hub connecting East and West, Berlin was a place of refuge and a way station for tens of thousands of Jews from Eastern Europe starting in the late nineteenth century, and particularly after the First World War. In six themed rooms and an epilogue, this exhibition shows Berlin as a centre of Jewish migration in Europe. (...)
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Special Exhibition
4/20/2012
to 7/15/2012
Russians Jews Germans: Photographs by Michael Kerstgens since 1992
Michael Kerstgens documented the immigration of Russian-speaking Jews to Germany from the former Soviet Union. His pictures record religious celebrations and social events within the Jewish community, everyday scenes from transition houses, and individual families’ private moments. (...)
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Special Exhibition
9/21/2012
to 1/27/2013
R. B. Kitaj: A Retrospective
The American artist R. B. Kitaj was one of the trailblazers of British pop-art in the 1960s. Beginning in the 1970s, Kitaj positioned himself as a Jewish artist, seeing himself as initiating a "diasporic" modern art. The retrospective rediscovers this characteristic throughout Kitaj’s œuvre. (...)
