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Literature

Book Reviews: Contemporary Jewish Authors (2)

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  • Contemporary Jewish Authors

    Employees of the Jewish Museum Berlin share their opinions on contemporary books by Jewish authors.

  • Book Cover Quasicrystals.

    Quasicrystals by Eva Menasse

    Mirjam Wenzel, Naomi Lubrich and Mirjam Bitter talk about Jewish questions, the lives of women, and expectations of literature in Eva Menasses novel Quasikristalle


    2013

  • n expressionistic painting of an apocalyptic landscape.

    Der Kalte by Robert Schindel

    Book review by Mirjam Bitter on Robert Schindel's novel unfolding the world of Vienna of the Waldheim affair, from 1985 to 1989.

    Book Review
    2013

Special Collections: On Jewish Art and Culture (6)

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  • On Jewish Art and Culture

    Some of our Library’s most important collections include the volumes printed by the Soncino Society of Friends of Jewish Books (founded in 1924), the publications of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, and special collections on Jewish art and visual culture.

  • Graphic Reproduction “Es kam das Feuer” (The fire came) by El Lissitzky

    The William L. Gross Collection

    The 400-book collection includes Judaica, documents, and literature on Jewish art and culture

  • Open book with one page of text and a black and white lithograph of a violinist.

    The Ulrich von Kritter Collection

    The collection comprises around sixty illustrated works of German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature (1920–1990)

  • Book cover by Kurt Löb: "De schilder en andere verhalten" with nude painting.

    The Kurt Löb Collection

    The collection includes signed and unsigned works by the book illustrator, exhibition catalogs, essays by and about him, and his dissertation

  • Drawing of a stone tower.

    The Soncino Society Collection

    With eighty Society publications from 1924 to 1937, our collection – a bequest from Hermann Meyer – is complete

  • A man in a suit is reading the C.V. newspaper while standing and talking on the phone, in the background a woman at a desk and a man at a filing cabinet.

    The John F. and Hertha Oppenheimer Collection

    Publications of the Central Association of German Citizens of Jewish Faith, other writings from the interwar period, and books published in the US after 1945

  • Title leaf in the Hebrew alphabet with publisher's name in the Latin alphabet.

    Collection Hebrew Printing in Berlin

    The collection contains about 400 Hebrew and Yiddish titles from the eighteenth century to 1933

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