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Online Showcase

Not everyone who is interested in our topics can visit us. That’s why we regularly develop content that works on its own, without a visit to the museum. Take a look at our online features!

You can find recordings of many museum events — both audio and video — in our media library.

Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era

Learn more about their lives and works

Online Feature
Let's Talk About Sex!

Artists interviews accompanying the exhibition Sex: Jewish Positions

Online Feature
2024
Het Onderwater-Cabaret

Curt Bloch’s satirical underground magazine and a glimpse behind the scenes of the exhibition “My Verses Are Like Dynamite”

Online Feature
2024
Voices from the GDR

Jewish perspectives on life and the political system

Online Feature
2023
Ukraine in Context

Jewish perspectives on Ukraine, present and past – brief interviews

Online Feature
2022/23
The Artist and the Scientist

On the Berlin based sisters Gertrud and Margarete Zuelzer. A project as part of a Year of Voluntary Service in Culture (FSJ Kultur)

Online Feature
2022
Moses Mendelssohn and His Time

A deep dive into themes of the exhibition “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment”

Online Feature
2022
The Prophet’s Ring

A folk tale by Ilse Herlinger, illustrated by Florian Schmeling

Online Project
2022
Bar Mitzvah Ark

Learn more about the wooden ark on display in front of our library

Online Feature
2022
Story Time in Our Library

Stories read aloud for children

Video Project
2020–2023
Glückel in the Bowl

Go on a culinary journey through the diversity of Berlin’s cuisines with the kosher fantasy creature Glückel

Video
2021/22
From Cowpox to Covid-19

Nearly 200 years of vaccine certificates in our archive

Online Feature
2021/22
ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES – The Subjects Pose with Their Portraits

Photos from the exhibition opening and interviews about Jewish life in Berlin

Online Feature
2021/22
25 Years, 26 Objects

Discover objects and their stories

Online Feature
2021
“No, I Want Dr. O.”

Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12)

Online Feature
2021
Topography of Violence 1930–1938

A visualization of documented acts of violence against individuals, Jewish institutions and businesses

Online Project
2020
Four Questions

Short Films by Yael Reuveny about Jewish Life in Germany

Video Project
2020
13 Objects—13 Stories

Unusual objects from our core exhibition tell stories of Jewish life

Online Project
2020
“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”

A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation

Online Feature
2020
Documenting Brutality

Historical sources on the antisemitic violence in Germany between 1930 and 1938 in the holdings of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Online Project
2020
“Say it like it is!”

An interview with Ruth Wodak about media discourse around attacks committed by right-wing extremists and strategies to counter right-wing extremism

Interview
Apr 2020
That can’t be! Can it?

Coincidences in the archive

Online Feature
2020
What to Do with Max Pinselstrich’s Portrait

Make decisions about an imaginary painting!

Online Game
2008/2020
When the Canvas No Longer Carries the Painting

A new method of conservation for the painting On the Way to the House of Prayer by Jakob Steinhardt

Online Feature
2020
Anna meets Leonie

Drawings by the volunteer Anna Justicz, inspired by Leonie Oliven’s diaries from 1901–1928

Art Project
2020
20 Years of the JMB

20 interviews

Video Project
2021
How Our Museum Came to Be

Details from our prehistory and the years since the museum opened

Online Feature
2020
Hanukkah Lasts Eight Days...

and for each day, we’ve got a little treat for you here

Online Feature
2017/20
Zvi Sofer: A Collector and His Collection

Who was the man who originally assembled the kernel of our Judaica collection?

Online Feature
2019
Bread and Roses

On International Women’s Day, Christina Hecht takes a look at various archives

Online Feature
2019
Kurt: Hunting for Clues

Online Feature
2018
Unpacking Donations

Family collections arriving at the museum

Photo Project
2018
Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein

With many photographs from the Walter and Leonie Frankenstein Collection

Online Feature
2017/18
Object Days

Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany

Photo Project
2017
Return of the Café Nagler

On the trail of a coffee shop

Essay
2017
Paula and Bernhard Lustig’s Wedding Album

A worthwhile insight into our archive

Online Feature
2017
12 of 12,000

Fallen German-Jewish Soldiers in the First World War

Online Project
2016
Golem.
From Mysticism to Minecraft

Online Feature
2016
The First World War in Jewish Memory

Series of eight short videos in which curators present holdings from our Archives.

Video Project
2015
1933: The Beginning of the End of German Jewry

Online project for the 2013 Theme Year Diversity Destroyed: 1933–1938

Online Project
2013
Vintage JMB

Digital extras to past temporary exhibitions. Just a heads-up: their design and technology aren’t as cutting-edge as they used to be...

Online Project
2005 to 2013
Matters of Faith: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Nine animated movies

Video Project
2011
What We Won’t Show You...

In nine short films, employees give insights into our work by explaining “what we don’t show”

Video Project
2009
Google Arts & Culture Online Exhibition

Here we show some of the family collections entrusted to us, which tell the stories and fates of their owners.

Exhibition
“For Me, Judaism Means Family”

Berlin athletes at the 2015 European Maccabi Games in Berlin

Online Feature
2015