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Museum–Science–Family Memory

Perspectives of an Unknown History of Migration–Symposium (audio recordings availabl, in German)

A one-day symposium accompanying the exhibition Berlin Transit. Jewish Immigrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s is on the program. The symposium will further examine themes from the exhibition and the interaction between museum, research, and family memories, exploring a largely forgotten chapter of Berlin’s migratory history.
The symposium will be held in German.

recording available

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The Old Building is marked in green

Where

Old Building, level 2, Great Hall
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin

When & where?

(4 items)
  • Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

    Berlin Luftmenschen: Eastern European Jewish Migrants in the Weimar Republic

    Speaker: Anne-Christin Saß (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin), in German

  • Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

    Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn

    Fabian Schnedler recites excerpts from the Yiddish original text

  • Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

    Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn

    Fabian Schnedler recites excerpts from the German translation

  • Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

    Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn

    Speaker: Alina Bothe (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin), in German

Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

Berlin Luftmenschen: Eastern European Jewish Migrants in the Weimar Republic

Speaker: Anne-Christin Saß (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin), in German

Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn

Fabian Schnedler recites excerpts from the Yiddish original text

Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn

Fabian Schnedler recites excerpts from the German translation

Das Geschäft von David Kempler mit der Aufschrift „Krakauer Café und Konditorei, Frühstück, Abendtisch“

Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn

Speaker: Alina Bothe (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin), in German

Program of the Symposium

Time

Topic

09–10 am

Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel
Images of an Exhibition

Leonore Maier (Jewish Museum Berlin): Staging Scholarship? On the Concept of a Cultural-Historical Exhibition
Ulrike Pilarczyk (TU Braunschweig): The Scheunenviertel: A Historical-Critical Image Analysis
Chair: Gertrud Pickhan (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)

10–11 am

Curator’s Guided Tour of the Exhibition Berlin Transit
 

Coffee Break

11.30 am–1 pm

Metropolis and Identity
External and Self-Images of Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin

Anne-Christin Saß (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin): Berlin Luftmenschen: Eastern European Jewish Migrants in the Weimar Republic
Reading by Fabian Schnedler: Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn, in Yiddish and German
Alina Bothe (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin): Grenadierstraße. A Novel by Fischl Schneersohn
Chair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Center for Research on Antisemitism, Berlin)
 

Lunch Break

2–3.30 pm

Fight the Bolsheviks!
Debates on Revolution and Pogroms in Berlin

Efim Melamed (Coordinator, Judaica in Ukraine Project): A Forgotten Film of the East Jewish Historical Archive
Christoph Dieckmann (Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt am Main): The Stereotype of the “Jewish Bolshevik” and the Debates on the Ukrainian Pogroms in Berlin
Chair: Ingo Loose (Institute of Contemporary History, Berlin)

4–5.30 pm

What Remained?
Descendants of Eastern European Jewish Migrants Share Their Stories

With Efrat Carmon (Jerusalem), Zeev Lewin (Ramat Gan), Ann Pasternak Slater (Oxford) and Mira Zakai (Givataim)
Chairs: Verena Dohrn (Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin) and Aubrey Pomerance (Jewish Museum Berlin)

7.30 pm

Concert: “A Kapelle Konzertisten”
“New Jewish Music” in Berlin during the 1920s

With Jascha Nemtsov and Tehila Nini Goldstein

Program of the Symposium

Download (PDF / 94.11 KB / in German)

Organized by the research project “Charlottengrad and Scheunenviertel: Eastern European Jewish Migrants in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s” at the Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin.

When & Where?

  • When24 Mar 2012
  • Where Old Building, level 2, Great Hall
    Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
    See location on map
Hashtag #JMBerlin

Source: https://www.jmberlin.de/en/museum-wissenschaft-familiengedaechtnis
Printed on: 09/04/2026