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.
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): visual and auditive insights into the exhibition themes and information in German Sign Language
- Publications
- Current page: Exhibition catalog: 2025, in German
- Digital Content
- Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era: All biographies at a glance
- Jewish Places: Information on the designers’ work and study locations on our interactive map
- Puppet Show, Menu Card, Children's Book: Digital copies accompanying the exhibition (in German)
- Paper doll based on a costume design by Dodo (1907–1998): Do it yourself – create your own movable paper doll!
- Fashion paper doll based on designs by Irene Saltern (1911–2005): Do it yourself – dress your own fashion paper doll!
- Beaded bracelet based on a design by Emma Trietsch (1876–1933): Do it yourself – make your own thread bracelet!
- Do you know Eva Samuel?: How the research for the exhibition took off
- Small Puppets – Strong Women: community project accompanying the exhibition (in German)
- Guided Tours
- Public Tour in German: tour with fixed dates
- Public Tour in English: tour with fixed dates
- Guided Tour & Brunch: tour with fixed dates
- Bookable Tour for Groups and Schools: tour by appointment
- 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, 2pm
- 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
- Studio Talk I – Mon 29 Sep 2025, 6.30 pm
- See also
- Jewish Women Ceramists from Germany after 1933: Online feature on Google Arts & Culture, in German
