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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. 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).

Holidays: Old Rituals, New Customs (19)

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

Behind the Scenes: Anecdotes and Exciting Finds while Working with our Collections (21)

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

Interview Series: New German Stories (12)

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“We were being driven like hunted animals!”

Max Karp on his deportation from Berlin on October 28, 1938

Online Feature
2018

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

“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

Modern Scavenger Hunters

David Studniberg on our summer vacation program

Report
2016

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

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

Michal Friedlander on the commemoration of 9 November 1938

Essay
2014

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

Torah scroll in golden sleeve with filigree decoration

From the Theory to the Practice of Writing the Torah

Miriam Goldmann in conversation with Rabbi Reuven Yaacobov

Interview
2014

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