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Entries on the Exhibition “Welcome to Jerusalem”

The 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.

  • Room view: video projection of Jerusalem on a wall.

    Intense Encounters in “Jerusalem”

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

    Interview
    2019

  • Tactile model of the street sign “Welcome to Jerusalem”.

    Jerusalem for All the Senses

    A report from the visit of a guided tour for visitors with blindness or limited vision through the exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem by Gerald Pirner

    Report
    2019

  • Detail of a postcard on which is written "Make hummus not war"

    “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

  • Two guides and visitors during a tour

    How about more tolerance for ambiguity?

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

    Interview
    2018

  • The color photograph shows Elena Bashkirova in a black blazer and a violet patterned scarf. In the background is the Jerusalem exhibition.

    “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

  • The colour photo shows the façade of the Jewish Museum Berlin with a traffic sign with the inscription

    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

  • Color photograph of a realistically modeled miniature steamroller with roller, excavator shovel, and driver's cab. A small metal tube for holding a feather and a candle holder have been attached to the upper side of the stylized engine compartment.

    The Big Clean-Up

    Dana Akrish writes about passover in Jerusalem

    Essay
    2018

  • Two women sit next to each other and smile at the camera.

    “Jerusalem is like a former boyfriend”

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

    Interview
    2018

  • Six people sit around a table and talk.

    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