Catalogs

• Published by the Jewish Museum Berlin
• 60 pages, over 30 illustrations, paperback
• Format: 24,5 x 20 cm
• German-English catalog. Budapest 2007

Historical amateur film clips, documentary material, and interviews are interwoven into a film on threat, deadly peril, and escape.

The installation is based on the documentary film "The Danube Exodus" by Péter Forgács (1988, produced by Lumen Film). "The Labyrinth Project" is a research initiative at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, Los Angeles, CA.

• Published by the Jewish Museum Berlin and Foundation Haus der Geschichte, Bonn
• approx. 300 pages, with numerous part and full-page illustrations, hardcover
• Format: 21 x 28 cm
• Jewish Publishing House at Suhrkamp Publishing House, 2006 (German language edition only)

It is the first comprehensive show to examine the forced exodus of German Jews to over a hundred countries worldwide. Like the exhibition itself, the richly illustrated catalog has a biographical focus. Where did the emigrants find refuge? Under what conditions? What were their lives like in the countries that took them in?

The catalog documents a variety of biographies and escape routes. These took the emigrants from Germany to destinations as remote as Shanghai and the Dominican Republic - and in some cases brought them back to Germany again after 1945. Different aspects of emigration are explored, together with the emotional and geographical meaning of "home." Taking the perspective of the emigrants, a separate section introduces each of the over one hundred countries that served as way-stations or the emigrants’ final destinations. This historical atlas provides a unique glimpse at the worldwide diaspora of German Jews which started over seventy years ago.

• Edited by Cilly Kugelmann, Nicola Lepp and Daniel Tyradellis
• 168 pages, Four-color throughout, with transparent pages with over 100 illustrations and radio drama on CD
• Nicolai Verlag, 2006

The book accompanying the exhibition in the Jewish Museum Berlin offers an amusing and pointed portrayal of the present state of psychoanalysis from various perspectives.

The book is organized around central basic psychoanalytical concepts like perversion, psychosis and phobia. The everyday world of things from Freud's most famous case histories - drill, bouquet and bathtub - makes the concepts astonishingly clear and comprehensible.

The basic concepts are flanked by articles from internationally renowned scientists. The psychoanalyst Peter Widmer looks into the role of the voice in psychoanalysis; the historian Eli Zaretsky investigates the influence of psychoanalysis on Jewish history; the film scholar Gertrud Koch pursues the depiction of psychoanalysis in cinema; the psychoanalyst Karl-Josef Pazzini reflects upon the role of a missing thing - in psychoanalysis and in the museum. A genealogy, more complete than any existing to date, provides information about the fate of the Freud family.

The volume is introduced with an essay by the exhibition curators, which deals with the setting of psychoanalytic treatment - armchair and couch - and with the space of love and law institutionalized by this setting.

The catalog includes a CD with an experimental radio drama on Freud's life

• Edited by James Howard Fraser, Mara Vishniac Kohn and Aubrey Pomerance for the Jewish Museum Berlin
• 132 pages, over 90 duotone photographs, hardcover
• Format: 21 x 22,5 cm

The photographs are accompanied by Mara Vishniac Kohn's personal memoir of her father and her childhood in Berlin.

The photographer Roman Vishniac, famous for his pictures of "A Vanished World" lived in Berlin from 1920 to 1939. In these twenty years he captured everyday life in the German capital, people in the steets, Berlin characters, friends and family as well as Jewish institutions.