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!

Painted magazine cover, a person reads in a magazine.

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

Portrait of a woman with curly hair, next to her the quote: “As you can see, I stand before you very much alive.”

Voices from the GDR

Jewish perspectives on life and the political system

Online Feature
2023

Graphic: The contours of Ukraine berry-colored against a blue background, on it the inscription: Ukraine in Context.

Ukraine in Context

Jewish perspectives on Ukraine, present and past – brief interviews

Online Feature
2022/23

Old picture of two women in profile leaning against each other.

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

Red bordered portrait of Moses Mendelssohn looking directly at the viewer

Moses Mendelssohn and His Time

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

Online Feature
2022

Drawn portrait of a boy framed by a huge golden ring. On the outer edge of the ring, people and objects are arranged in a circle.

The Prophet’s Ring

A folk tale by Ilse Herlinger, illustrated by Florian Schmeling

Online Project
2022

A boy in a dark suit and tie stands next to a toy ark made of wood. A rotunda is visible in the background.

Bar Mitzvah Ark

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

Online Feature
2022

Drawing of white dove with olive branch in beak in front of blue background.

Story Time in Our Library

Stories read aloud for children

Video Project
2020–2023

A man, a boy, a blue doll and a girl are standing at a kitchen island, grating potatoes and laughing

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

Black-and-white photograph of a man holding a scalpel to the upper arm of another man who is smiling for the camera

From Cowpox to Covid-19

Nearly 200 years of vaccine certificates in our archive

Online Feature
2021/22

Collage of several photos of people in front of their own portraits in the exhibition Zerheilt: Healed to Pieces

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

Collage of horse, besamim box, written document and photo

20 Years, 21 Objects

Discover objects that have never been shown to the public

Online Feature
2021

Left: black and white portrait photo of a young lady. She wears a high-necked dress with hat in the style of the 1910s. Right: cover of a worn diary with leather binding and the golden lettering “Tage-Buch” (diary).

“No, I Want Dr. O.”

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

Online Feature
2021

Screenshot: on a black background there are numerous bright markers. They give an idea of the outline of Germany within the borders of 1937

Topography of Violence 1930–1938

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

Online Project
2020

Four people standing next to each other

Four Questions

Short Films by Yael Reuveny about Jewish Life in Germany

Video Project
2020

Female statue with traces of rust, missing the head

13 Objects—13 Stories

Unusual objects from our core exhibition tell stories of Jewish life

Online Project
2020

Excerpt from a letter.

“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”

A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation

Online Feature
2020

Cover of a landscape photo album with leather binding

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

Portrait Ruth Wodak.

“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

A woman holds a picture with a building view into the camera.

That can’t be! Can it?

Coincidences in the archive

Online Feature
2020

Illustrated graphic of a golden picture framing containing a portrait of a cartoon older man wearing a suit and glasses sitting in a large red chair

What to Do with Max Pinselstrich’s Portrait

Make decisions about an imaginary painting!

Online Game
2008/2020

People on a street, in the foreground are three older, bearded men in coats with hats

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

Drawing of a young woman leafing through a diary. She is sitting inside in front of a window

Anna meets Leonie

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

Art Project
2020

Collage of portrait photos of different people with a red jagged line across them

20 Years of the JMB

20 interviews

Video Project
2021

Graphic.

How Our Museum Came to Be

Details from our prehistory and the years since the museum opened

Online Feature
2020

Hand-painted colorful candelabrum made of ceramic and synthetic resin depicting various New York City landmarks: the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the World Trade Center, Broadway, and others.

Hanukkah Lasts Eight Days...

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

Online Feature
2017/20

Black and white photograph of a man with hanukkah candlestick in his hand.

Zvi Sofer: A Collector and His Collection

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

Online Feature
2019

Black and white photo of a young woman in winter clothes next to a car on a country road.

Bread and Roses

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

Online Feature
2019

The illustration shows a young man climbing a wall made of puzzle pieces.

Kurt: Hunting for Clues

Initially, all we have is a first name, but intensive research brings some details to light.

Online Feature
2018

Hands reach into a box of letters.

Unpacking Donations

Family collections arriving at the museum

Photo Project
2018

Die Aufnahme zeigt einen Mann, eine Frau, vor ihnen zwei Kinder, alle stehen im Freien. Die beiden Jungs und der Mann tragen kurze Hosen, die Frau ein kurzärmeliges Kleid mit floralem Muster.

Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein

With many photographs from the Walter and Leonie Frankenstein Collection

Online Feature
2017/18

Several people are sitting around a table on which memorabilia and a recording device are lying.

Object Days

Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany

Photo Project
2017

Zeichnung eines Rabbiners, der ein Brautpaar segnet

Paula and Bernhard Lustig’s Wedding Album

A worthwhile insight into our archive

Online Feature
2017

Memorial stones in rows, grass in between, a small wall in the background

12 of 12,000

Fallen German-Jewish Soldiers in the First World War

Online Project
2016

Exhibition view of the room “Jewish Mysticism”, showing Joshua Abarbanel’s Golem

Golem.
From Mysticism to Minecraft

Online Feature
2016

Archival holdings on the First World War: pimple caps, various medals, a wooden statue of a soldier in uniform

The First World War in Jewish Memory

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

Video Project
2015

Screenshot of a website: you can see the year “1933” and a calendar representing the last days of January and the first days of February as square areas.

1933: The Beginning of the End of German Jewry

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

Online Project
2013

Exhibition view.

Matters of Faith: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Nine animated movies

Video Project
2011

Screenshot of a page showing three rows of three video players each. Each of the video player’s start pictures shows a person talking

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 many of the family collections entrusted to us, which tell the stories and fates of their owners.

Exhibition

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