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Topography of Violence 1930–1938
A visualization of documented acts of violence against individuals, Jewish institutions and businesses
Online Project
2020
What to Do with Max Pinselstrich's Portrait
Make decisions about an imaginary painting!
Online Game
2008/2020
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
12 of 12,000
Fallen German-Jewish Soldiers in the First World War
Online Project
2016
1933: The Beginning of the End of German Jewry
Online project for the 2013 Theme Year “Diversity Destroyed: 1933–1938”
Online Project
2013
Dateline: Israel
Exhibition website with contemporary photography and video art, including Yael Bartana’s video installation Trembling Time (2001)
Online Project
2007/08
13 Objects—13 Stories
Unusual objects from our core exhibition tell stories of Jewish life
Online Project
2020
Digitized Books
Freely Browse the Digital Copies in Our Library
Online Project
Bedřich Fritta
Drawings from the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Featuring many of the drawings from the exhibition
Exhibition Website
2013
Looting and Restitution
Jewish-Owned Cultural Artifacts from 1933 to the Present. With glossary of technical terms relating to restitution
Exhibition Website
2008
Paula and Bernhard Lustig's Wedding Album
A worthwhile insight into our archive
Online Feature
2017
“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”
A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation
Online Feature
2020
Night Shift
Insights into the museum at night
Video Project
2018
Kurt: Hunting for Clues
Initially, all we have is a first name, but intensive research brings some details to light.
Online Feature
2018
On Site
The hosts at the museum show their favourite spots
Photo Project
2018
Object Days
Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany
Photo Project
2017
Golem. From Mysticism to Minecraft
Online Feature
2016
Triumph of Survival
Cilly Kugelmann on a photo that visualizes the victory over the Nazis
Commentary
May 2020
What We Won’t Show You...
In nine short films (in German), employees give insights into our work by explaining “what we don’t show.”
Video Project
2009
Kosher Portraits
A photo series about Jewish life n in Germany
Photo Project
2019
Diagonals of Diversity
Stephan Becker on Berlin’s Lindenstrasse from past to present
Essay
2016
That can’t be! Can it?
Coincidences in the archive
Online Feature
2020
Lucky Coincidences
Interview with our New Museum Director Hetty Berg
Interview
2020
How Our Museum Came to Be
Details from our prehistory and the years since the museum opened
Online Feature
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
Unpacking Donations
Family collections arriving at the museum
Photo Project
2018
Core Exhibition Team
Selfie Project for International Museum Day on 17 May 2020
Photo Project
2020
“Original Voices Ensure a Diversity of Perspectives”
Interview with Lisa Albrecht about the New JMB App
Interview
Jul 2020
Consuming Light
A Short History of Ritual Lights by Michal Friedlander
Essay
2018
New Accents
Cilly Kugelmann on our new core exhibition
Interview
2020
Each Object a Universe
Portraits of our conservators and workshops
Photo Project
2020
LGBTQI+ & Judaism
An anecdotal glossary by Debora Antmann
Essay
2021
Zvi Sofer: A Collector and His Collection
Who was the man who originally assembled the kernel of our Judaica collection?
Online Feature
2019
When the Canvas No Longer Carries the Painting
Our conservator developed a new method of conservation for the double-sided painting On the Way to the House of Prayer by Jakob Steinhardt
Online Feature
2020
Bread and Roses
On International Women's Day, Christina Hecht takes a look at various archives
Online Project
2019
A Berlin Israeli as “Advent Hero”
A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative
Gloss
Dec 2020
Matters of Faith: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Nine animated movies
Video Project
2011
Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein
With many photographs from the Walter and Leonie Frankenstein Collection
Online Feature
2017/18
The First World War in Jewish Memory
Series of eight short videos in which curators present holdings from our Archives.
Video Project
2015
A Jew Is Not One Thing
The curator Miriam Goldmann about the exhibition A Is For Jewish
Essay
2019
The First Jewish Museum in Berlin
Inka Bertz on our collection, the seizure of the museum's holdings in 1938, reconstruction, and more
Essay
2012
Jewish Power
What is Jewish Music?
By Fabian Schnedler
Essay
2019
Behind the Scenes: Anecdotes and Exciting Finds while Working with our Collections (11)
Anecdotes and Exciting Finds while Working with our Collections
Employees of our archive and our collections provide insight into their work and share stories and insights.
Berlin in Times of Cholera
Doreen Tesche and Jörg Waßmer discover some parallels to the current corona pandemic in Louis Röhmann’s diary entries about cholera in Berlin in 1837.
That can’t be! Can it?
Jörg Waßmer about coincidences in the archive
“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”
A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation
“The best solution would be that the baby is a girl”
Jörg Waßmer prepared the inventory of Fritz Wachsner’s estate and got some insights into an internal Jewish debate about circumcision.
Conservation of Letters and Seals
Stephan Lohrengel reports about his work as paper conservator in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
The World in Miniature
Kirsten Meyer on conserving and storing a stamp album
Farewell Letter, Ink on Paper
Exhibition curator Maren Krüger and paper conservator Stephan Lohrengel about a touching historical document and why we could only exhibit it so shortly
Photographic Testimony
Theresia Ziehe, curator for photography, on the history of the Herbert Sonnenfeld collection
All for Love
Jörg Waßmer searches for sexual diversity in the collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin
A Small Window onto History
Aubrey Pomerance, Head of Archives, on a newly acquired Passover Haggadah and its previous owners in Kreuzberg
Salvaged from the Trash
Anna Rosemann on the photo albums of the artist Olga Irén Fröhlich
Question of the Month: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews (7)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews
Our exhibition The Whole Truth…Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews was based on 30 questions posed to the Jewish Museum Berlin or its staff over the past few years. In the exhibition, visitors had their own opportunity to ask questions or to leave comments on post-it notes. Some of these questions are answered here in our website.
How does a kippah stay on?
Answered by Michal Friedlander, Curator for Judaica and Applied Arts
Why do women have to cover their hair with a wig or scarf after getting married?
Answered by Miriam Goldmann, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
Do Jews have their own language?
Answered by Martina Lüdicke, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
Why do some Jews rock back and forth while they pray?
Answered by Miriam Goldmann, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
What role do gender themes play? What’s the story with women rabbis?
Answered by Anina Falasca, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
Are there gay Jews?
Answered by Anina Falasca, Miriam Goldmann, Martina Lüdicke, Curators of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
“Was Goethe a Jew too?”
Answered by Berhard Jensen, Library
Online Features: The Background and Ramifications of 9 November 1938 (5)
The Background and Ramifications of 9 November 1938
The employees of our Archive have combed through our archival holdings and assembled materials on various topics related to the violent riots against Jews that took place on 9 and 10 November 1938.
“We were being driven like hunted animals!”
Mendel Max Karp’s lengthy account about his deportation from the German capital on October 28, 1938, during the Polenaktion
“... or was it the end of the world?”
In a letter, David Fiks records an extensive account of his experiences in Berlin on 9 November 1938 and the days that followed.
The Exclusion of Jewish Children from Public Schools 1938
What an apparently innocuous postcard reveals
“Travel Toward a Happy Future!”
In reaction to the November Pogroms, the Kindertransport program of 1938–39 rescued ten thousand children from the Nazis’ violent regime.
“Decisive Defense and Hard Reparations”
The financial punishment of the Jewish populace after Kristallnacht
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.
Online Exhibition
Museum Publications
Exhibition catalogs, the JMB Journal, book series, and more
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Blogerim: From the Corridors of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Here, staff members of the Jewish Museum Berlin share thoughts and anecdotes from their daily work and topics that move them.
Blog