Defiance
Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era
Catalog Accompanying the Exhibition (in German)
This elaborately designed volume provides insights into the creative power and lives of over 60 women - including those whose names have been largely forgotten until today.
New educational opportunities in the Weimar Republic gave Jewish women the chance to work in artistic fields of their own choosing. Many of them became successful – although female designers were never given the same recognition as their male colleagues. National Socialism and its systematic persecution and murder of Jews destroyed the lives and careers of these women. Some managed to escape, but only very few succeeded in making a new start as a designer. Almost all of them have remained neglected in German art and cultural history to this day.
The catalog will be published in July 2025.
Details
- Widerstände. Jüdische Designerinnen der Moderne
320 pages, 250 illustrations in color
paperback with flaps, 21 x 26 cm
Hirmer Verlag
München 2025
ISBN: 978-3-7356-1014-0 (in German only) - Editor Michal S. Friedlander, Jewish Museum Berlin
- Including an essay by the editor
- Design team mao, Berlin
- Price 39,90 €
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Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era
- Exhibition Webpage
- Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era (11 Jul to 23 Nov 2025): Insights and information about the exhibition's topics
- Accompanying Events
- Exhibition Opening: Thu, 10 Jul 2025, 7 pm (exhibition open to visitors from 5 pm)
- Pioneering women of the 1920s – artistic research from the Modeschule Berlin at the JMB: Public presenation, Thu 17 Jul 2025
- Summer Party at the JMB with free admission, workshops and more – Sun, 20 Jul 2025, 2 pm
- Creative Love! Long Night of Museums – Sun, 30 Aug 2025, starting 6 pm
- Publications
- Current page: Exhibition catalog: 2025, in German
- Guided Tours
- Public Tour in German: Sun 13 Jul, 10 Aug & 28 Sep 2025, 11 am
- Public Tour in English: Sat 2 Aug & 6 Sep 2025, 3 pm
- Guided Tour & Brunch: Sun 27 Jul, 24 Aug & 14 Sep 2025, 10.15 am
- Bookable Tour for Groups and Schools: Tour by appointment
- Digital Content
- Puppet Show, Menu Card, Children's Book: Digital copies accompanying the exhibition (in German)
- Do you know Eva Samuel?: How the research for the exhibition took off
- See also
- Jewish Women Ceramists from Germany after 1933: Online feature on Google Arts & Culture, in German
