In spring 2011, the Jewish Museum Berlin turned its attention to the Radical Jewish Culture music movement in an exhibition that illuminated its emergence, its central figures, and the discussions, frequently political, that it provoked. You can read the core text of the time period in the JMB Journal No. 4, "Just what is this Radical New Jewish Culture?" This 1992 manifesto by Marc Ribot and John Zorn formulated for the first time questions that would continue to occupy the New York music world for nearly twenty years.
You will also find an overview of the scene's development by ethnomusicologist Tamar Barzel. A portrait of David Krakauer by Hyacinthe Ravet traces the personal background of one of the mainstays of Jewish music, while in an interview, jazz bassist Greg Cohen talks about his work.
Featuring articles by Tamar Barzel, Hyacinthe Ravet, Greg Cohen, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Rosalin Krieger, Joshua Neuman, Caspar Battegay, Michal Friedlander, and Avi Pitchon along with information about the events accompanying Radical Jewish Culture, the Unten (Under) installation by Micha Ullman, the "Justice and Peace" conference at the Jewish Museum Berlin, the redesigned display case about the life of Moshe Wolf, the cultural program put on by the Friends and Patrons of the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Diaspora Garden at the Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin, online showcases, and a profile of the exhibition designers KatzKaiser.
You can order this publication by contacting:
Janine Lehmann
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Catalogs: Exhibition Publications (42)
Exhibition Publications
Our temporary exhibitions have had accompanying catalogs, journals, and essay collections in various formats.
Welcome to Jerusalem
Exhibition Catalog
res·o·nant. Mischa Kuball
Exhibition Catalog
Eran Shakine
Exhibition Catalog A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew
GOLEM
Exhibition Catalog
Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture
Exhibition Catalog Transcending Tradition
No Compromises! The Art of Boris Lurie
Exhibition Catalog
In a Foreign Country
Companion booklet to the exhibition about literature from DP camps
Obedience
Exhibition Catalog
Pictures Galore and Collecting Mania
Exhibition Brochure
Snip it!
Exhibition Catalog
Catalog
2014
Braginsky Collection
Catalog for the exhibition The Creation of the World featuring artifacts of Jewish written culture from the Braginsky Collection
Fred Stein. Paris New York
Exhibition Catalog
Catalog
2013
A Time for Everything
Rituals against Forgetting – Exhibition catalog
The Whole Truth
Special Issue for the Exhibition
JMB Journal
2013
Obsessions
R.B. Kitaj
Catalog for the exhibition about the artist R.B. Kitaj (1932–2007)
Russians Jews Germans
A catalog accompanying the exhibition Russians Jews Germans. Photographs by Michael Kerstgens from 1992 to the Present
Catalog
2012
Berlin Transit
Exhibition Catalog
Heimatkunde (How German is it?)
30 Artists' Notion of Home – Exhibition Catalog
Radical Jewish?
Special Issue for the Radical Jewish Culture Exhibition
2011
Jewish Forced Laborers at Ehrich & Graetz
Book about forced labor at the metal and electric goods manufacturer in Berlin's Treptow district
Heroes, Freaks, and Super-Rabbis
Exhibition catalog about Jewish authors and illustrators and comics
Flight and Metamorphosis
Exhibition Catalog
Kosher & Co.
Catalog for the exhibition on food and religion containing numerous essays (with free excerpts)
Publication
2009
Deadly Medicine
Exhibition Catalog Tödliche Medizin. Rassenwahn im Nationalsozialismus
(Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race)
Ruth Jacobi. Photographs
Exhibition Catalog
Looting Restitution
Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts from 1933 to the Present
Typical!
Exhibition Catalog typisch! Klischees von Juden und Anderen
(Typical! Clichés about Jews and Others)
Dateline: Israel
Exhibition catalog of contemporary photography and video art
Charlotte Salomon
Exhibition Catalog Charlotte Salomon. Leben? oder Theater?
(Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theater?)
"Neben seinen Schnürsenkeln in einem leeren Kühlschrank laufen" ("Walking Next to One’s Shoelaces Inside an Empty Fridge")
Book on the Installation by Chantal Akerman
The Danube Exodus
Companion publication to the multimedia installation The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River
Home and Exile
Exhibition Catalog
PSYCHOanalysis
Exhibition Catalog
Roman Vishniac's Berlin
Exhibition Catalog
Catalog
2005
Chrismukkah
Exhibition Catalog
Family Pictures
Exhibition Publication
Jakob Steinhardt: Der Prophet (Jakob Steinhardt: The Prophet)
A Publication by the Berlin Municipal Museum
10+5=Gott (10+5=God)
Exhibition Catalog
Carlo Levi
Exhibition Catalog Carlo Levi. Ausgewählte Werke 1926–1974
(Carlo Levi. Selected Works, 1926–1974)
"Dem Deutschen Volke" (To the German People)
The Story of the Loevy Bronze Foundry (Exhibition Publication)
Disposable Eyes
Companion publication to two photography projects, Disposable Eyes and Promised Land
Collect, Fold, Count
Museum Guide
Micha Ullman: Under
Exhibition
18 Mar to 31 Jul 2011
The Diaspora Garden
An indoor garden as a place of reflection and a landscape for educational programs at the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy
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