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Entries from the Blog of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Work in Progress

Since its relaunch in 2016, our website itself has been magazine-like. For this reason, selected entries from our museum blog are gradually being transferred here. In this way, we hope to ensure that relevant, timeless entries are easier to find via the topics presented on our website (show all topics). Anyone with a particular interest in texts created within the context of the blog can find all of the blog entries that have already been transferred together on this page.

For the time being, the entire blog is still available at www.jmberlin.de/blog-en. We now publish new articles, features, and online projects directly here on the website (show all online projects).

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“Remember, remember...” a date in November

Michal Friedlander on the commemoration of 9 November 1938

Essay
2014

Modern Scavenger Hunters

David Studniberg on our summer vacation program

Report
2016

View into the aisle between two rows of bookshelves in a library

Searching for the New Germans

Bernhard Jensen leads through the reading room of the Jewish Museum's Academy

Gloss
2014

The Story of Uri Kozower

Uri and his family were among the last people to be murdered in Auschwitz’s gas chambers

Essay
Jan 2014

“This four-minute performance means three to four months of training”

About the song and dance competition Jewrovision

Interview
Feb 2017

Quite “best practice”

Tom's coming out speech: an example that shows how queer people can find their place in society, and how not only they but everyone can benefit from it

Essay
2017

Black and white photograph with children in concentration camp clothes in Auschwitz standing behind barbed wire fence

On International and Other Remembrance Days

Mirjam Wenzel about 27 January an other remembrance days for the Holocaust

Essay
2015

Our Top “Muscle Jews”

Aubrey Pomerance on the concept of muscular Judaism and the Jewish sports movement

Essay
2015

Die Aufnahme zeigt einen Mann, eine Frau, vor ihnen zwei Kinder, alle stehen im Freien. Die beiden Jungs und der Mann tragen kurze Hosen, die Frau ein kurzärmeliges Kleid mit floralem Muster.

Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein

With many photographs from the Walter and Leonie Frankenstein Collection

Online Feature
2017/18

Street sign with the inscription: Fromet and Moses Mendelssohn Square

With Love from Fromet and Moses Mendelssohnplatz!

The Mendelssohns' marriage inscribed in the map of Berlin

Essay
2013

Behind the Scenes: Anecdotes and Exciting Finds while Working with our Collections (20)

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Behind the Scenes: Entries on the Exhibition “Snip it! Stances on Circumcision” (9)

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Entries on the Exhibition “Snip it! Stances on Circumcision”

Interviews and stories by our employees, which were published as part of the exhibition Snip it! Stances on Circumcision, you can now read here on our website.
After the Exhibition is Before the Exhibition

Martina Lüdicke on the decision to dedicate a separate exhibition to questions of circumcision raised in the exhibition The Whole Truth
On Belonging and Family Debates

A conversation about a circumcision that didn’t happen
“I didn’t want to ‘get lost’”

Alice Lanzke talked with Rabbi Goldberg about the complaint that he was liable for “dangerous personal injury” due to the circumcisions he performed.
“It was only later that I had my doubts”

Mirjam Wenzel talked with Naomi about her thoughts on ritual circumcision, then and now.
David’s Circumcision

Shlomit Tulgan, who knows David from childhood, tells us the story of his circumcision.
On the Hamster Wheel of Argumentation

Andy Simanowitz, guide in the exhibition Snip it!, reports on stubborn questions and spirals of argumentation.
“Part of something greater”

Alice Lanzke spoke with Amitay and Meital from Israel about the circumcision of their son.
A Circumcision to Keep the (Family) Peace

Alice Lanzke spoke with a Muslim mother about the question: should her four-year-old son be circumcised?
“The best solution would be that the baby is a girl”

Jörg Waßmer prepared the inventory of Fritz Wachsner’s estate and got some insights into an internal Jewish debate about circumcision.

Essay
2015

Holidays: Old Rituals, New Customs (19)

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Firsthand Stories: A Tour of Tour Experiences (5)

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A Tour of Tour Experiences

Some of our guides, as well as a few visitors, have written here about experiences they had on various tours at the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Jerusalem for All the Senses

A tour for the blind and vision impaired through the exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem at the Jewish Museum Berlin. A piece by Gerald Pirner.

Report
2019
Intense Encounters in “Jerusalem”

How school children react to the tour through the exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem. A conversation with Marc Wrasse

Interview
2019
On the Hamster Wheel of Argumentation

Andy Simanowitz, guide in the exhibition Snip it!, reports on stubborn questions and spirals of argumentation.
How about more tolerance for ambiguity?

Mohamed Ibrahim and Shemi Shabat talk about their tandem guided tour Jerusalem in Dialogue

Interview
2018
The Whole Truth: a Continuing Discussion

Guide Marc Wrasse about group discussions in the exhibition

Behind the Scenes: Entries on the Exhibition “Welcome to Jerusalem” (9)

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Entries on the Exhibition “Welcome to Jerusalem”

Our exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem was on display from 11 December 2017 to 1 May 2019. To accompany the exhibition, we conducted interviews with our guides and curators, and spoke with visitors. All blog entries about the exhibition can now be found here.
Intense Encounters in “Jerusalem”

How school children react to the tour through the exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem. A conversation with Marc Wrasse

Interview
2019
Jerusalem for All the Senses

A tour for the blind and vision impaired through the exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem at the Jewish Museum Berlin. A piece by Gerald Pirner.

Report
2019
“Whatever you want to see – you come to Jerusalem, and you can find it there.”

Florian Schmelling has captured comments from visitors to our Jerusalem Exhibition.

Interview
2018
How about more tolerance for ambiguity?

Mohamed Ibrahim and Shemi Shabat talk about their tandem guided tour Jerusalem in Dialogue

Interview
2018
“We’re no longer guests, we belong.”

Elena Bashkirova, director of the chamber music “festival intonations,” took a tour of the exhibition then spoke with us about the “holy city.”

Interview
2018
Neither King David nor Cilly Kugelmann can solve this problem

About the difficulties the organizers of the Welcome to Jerusalem exhibition encountered doing justice to the ideal of justice, writes Walid Abd El Gawad

Essay
2018
The Big Clean-Up

Dana Akrish writes about passover in Jerusalem

Essay
2018
“Jerusalem is like a former boyfriend”

Interview with filmmaker Dalia Castel and actress Orit Nahmias about Jerusalem. They both grew up there

Interview
2018
Schools in Hannover, a Jerusalem Hotel, and the Search for their Connection

Rosa Fava writes about a conference on anti-Semitism-critical adult education

Report
2018

Behind the Scenes: Entries on the Exhibition “The Whole Truth” (7)

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Entries on the Exhibition “The Whole Truth”

What obstacles had to be overcome to open the exhibition The Whole Truth (2013), how it felt as a Jew to sit in a glass case in the exhibition, how visitors reacted, what further things developed out of the exhibition...
Trials of a Truth Seeker

Michal Friedlander on the countdown before the opening of the exhibition The Whole Truth
Ask the Rabbi

Martina Lüdicke about the shooting of the film installation in the exhibition The Whole Truth
In the Showcase

Olga Mannheimer about her experiences in the exhibition The Whole Truth
From Wagner to the Weather

Signe Rossbach about her two hours as a living exhibition object in the show The Whole Truth

Report
2013
Conversion and Controversy

Naomi Lubrich on the new interest in this topic and on religious loyalty
The Whole Truth: a Continuing Discussion

Guide Marc Wrasse about group discussions in the exhibition
After the Exhibition is Before the Exhibition

Martina Lüdicke on the decision to dedicate a separate exhibition to questions of circumcision

Question of the Month: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews (7)

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews

Our exhibition The Whole Truth…Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews was based on 30 questions posed to the Jewish Museum Berlin or its staff over the past few years. In the exhibition, visitors had their own opportunity to ask questions or to leave comments on post-it notes. Some of these questions are answered here in our website.
How does a kippah stay on?

Answered by Michal Friedlander, Curator for Judaica and Applied Arts
Why do women have to cover their hair with a wig or scarf after getting married?

Answered by Miriam Goldmann, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
Do Jews have their own language?

Answered by Martina Lüdicke, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
Why do some Jews rock back and forth while they pray?

Answered by Miriam Goldmann, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
What role do gender themes play? What’s the story with women rabbis?

Answered by Anina Falasca, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
Are there gay Jews?

Answered by Anina Falasca, Miriam Goldmann, Martina Lüdicke, Curators of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
“Was Goethe a Jew too?”

Answered by Berhard Jensen, Library

Interview Series: New German Stories (12)

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New German Stories

From 2014 to 2017, our colleagues from the Academy program on migration and diversity held regular events at the Jewish Museum in a series called New German Stories. The guests' lives speak to Germany, past and present, as a society of migration, and the events take these life stories as a springboard for exploring these themes. Beforehand, the guests were almost always interviewed. We have compiled these interviews for you here.
Karamba Diaby

“We should close this representation gap”

Interview
26 May 2017
Anita Awosusi

On her book Our Father – A Sinti Family Recounts

Interview
6 Feb 2017
Ármin Langer

“The boredom of peaceful coexistence”

Interview
18 Oct 2016
Marion Kraft

“The part Black soldiers played in the liberation of Germany from Nazism has been largely neglected”

Interview
6 Jul 2016
Çiçek Bacık

“We’ve always been spoken and written about”

Interview
13 Oct 2015
Fereshta Ludin

“I wish more people would look in my eyes instead of at my scarf”

Interview
16 Sep 2015
David Ranan

“Other but not foreign”

Interview
6 Jul 2015
Ahmad Milad Karimi

On his book Osama bin Laden is Sleeping with Fishes

Interview
9 Mar 2015
Alina Gromova

Generation “kosher light”. Young Jews of Russian descent in Berlin

Interview
8 Sep 2014
Canan Turan

Kıymet or: A cinematic tribute to my grandmother

Interview
4 Jul 2014
Urmila Goel and Nisa Punnamparambil-Wolf

InderKinder
Dealing creatively with ethnic classifications

Interview
19 Mar 2014
Alice Bota, Khuê Pham, and Özlem Topçu

“New German stories”

Interview
29 Jan 2014

Book Reviews: Contemporary Jewish Authors (2)

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Contemporary Jewish Authors

Employees of the Jewish Museum Berlin share their opinions on contemporary books by Jewish authors.
Quasicrystals by Eva Menasse

Mirjam Wenzel, Naomi Lubrich and Mirjam Bitter talk about Jewish questions, the lives of women, and expectations of literature in Eva Menasses novel Quasikristalle
Der Kalte by Robert Schindel

Book review by Mirjam Bitter on Robert Schindel's novel unfolding the world of Vienna of the Waldheim affair, from 1985 to 1989.

Book Review
2013