A Torah shield, a sculpture, a cushion: 13 unusual objects tell 13 stories of Jewish life. One of the tours of the JMB app leads right through the exhibition to eye-catchers of all kinds, some small, some big.
What would a museum be without its many objects, each rich in meaning? You can get a sneak peek of the objects here on our website.
L’amitié au coeur (Friendship of the Heart) by Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris, 1765, marble
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Finds from the Memmelsdorf Genizah, Memmelsdorf (find site), ca. 1725–1830, paper, ink, fabric, leather, porcelain
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Torah shield donated by Isaak Jakob Gans (1723–1798), Hamburg, 1760–1765, silver
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Shevirat ha-Kelim (Breaking of the Vessels) by Anselm Kiefer (born 1945), 1990–2019, lead, iron, glass, copper wire, charcoal, Aquatec
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Manheimer family portrait, by Julius Moser (1805–1879), Berlin, 1850, oil on canvas
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Puppet Show King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Käte Baer-Freyer (1885–1988), Berlin, ca. 1924, plywood, metals
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“ISRAELI, JEW, and now SEVERELY DISABLED—there’s got to be a way to capitalize on that in GERMANY,” Daniel Josefsohn (1961–2016), Berlin, 2014/15, textile
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Silver formerly owned by Jews, provenance: up to 1939 unknown Jewish owners, 1939 Hamburg Tax Authority, 1960 allotted to the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts (MKG) by the City of Hamburg
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Going-away present by Bruno Heidenheim, Album to bid farewell to Margot (1913–2010) and Ernst (1898–1971) Rosenthal, Chemnitz
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Hand washbasin, manufacturer: S. & D. Loewenthal, Frankfurt am Main, 1895/96, silver
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No longer in the country: unclaimed membership cards for the Jewish community Frankfurt am Main, 1949
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Composition, Otto Freundlich (1878–1943), 1938, tempera on cardboard
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Yellow star of the Lehmann family, Berlin, 1941–1945
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L’amitié au coeur (Friendship of the Heart) by Étienne-Maurice Falconet (1716–1791), Paris, 1765, marble
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Finds from the Memmelsdorf Genizah, Memmelsdorf (find site), ca. 1725–1830, paper, ink, fabric, leather, porcelain
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Torah shield donated by Isaak Jakob Gans (1723–1798), Hamburg, 1760–1765, silver
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Shevirat ha-Kelim (Breaking of the Vessels) by Anselm Kiefer (born 1945), 1990–2019, lead, iron, glass, copper wire, charcoal, Aquatec
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Manheimer family portrait, by Julius Moser (1805–1879), Berlin, 1850, oil on canvas
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Puppet Show King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, Käte Baer-Freyer (1885–1988), Berlin, ca. 1924, plywood, metals
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“ISRAELI, JEW, and now SEVERELY DISABLED—there’s got to be a way to capitalize on that in GERMANY,” Daniel Josefsohn (1961–2016), Berlin, 2014/15, textile
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Silver formerly owned by Jews, provenance: up to 1939 unknown Jewish owners, 1939 Hamburg Tax Authority, 1960 allotted to the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts (MKG) by the City of Hamburg
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Going-away present by Bruno Heidenheim, Album to bid farewell to Margot (1913–2010) and Ernst (1898–1971) Rosenthal, Chemnitz
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Hand washbasin, manufacturer: S. & D. Loewenthal, Frankfurt am Main, 1895/96, silver
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No longer in the country: unclaimed membership cards for the Jewish community Frankfurt am Main, 1949
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Composition, Otto Freundlich (1878–1943), 1938, tempera on cardboard
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Yellow star of the Lehmann family, Berlin, 1941–1945
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Exhibition Jewish Life in Germany: Past & Present: Features & Programs
- Exhibition Webpage
- Jewish Life in Germany: Past & Present – core exhibition of the Jewish Museum Berlin, since Aug 2020
- Guided Tours
- JMB App – audio guide, available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew and Russian, available for download
- Guided tours for adults as individual visitors or in groups – at fixed dates or by appointment, on site or digitally, in several languages
- Guided tours and workshops für school groups – by appointment, on site or digitally, in several languages
- Publications
- The JMB Book – history, architecture and core exhibition of the museum, available in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian
- Open – JMB Journal #21, with interviews and background information on the exhibition
- Digital Content
- Thematic room Torah – audios and objects on words, writing and language
- Thematic room Music – religious and secular music
- Topography of Violence. Antisemitic violence in Germany 1930–1938 – media application from the epoch room Catastrophe
- Current page: 13 Objects – 13 Stories – unusual objects from our core exhibition
- New Accents – interview with Cilly Kugelmann, chief curator of the core exhibition
- See also
- The Libeskind building
- History of the museum