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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
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
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
Story Time in Our Library
Why Noah Chose the Dove by Isaac Bashevis Singer with Pictures by Eric Carle
Video
2023
Ukraine in Context
Jewish Perspectives on Ukraine, Present and Past – Mini Interviews
Online Feature
2022/23
Odesa as a Site of Jewish Utopian Dreams
Interview with Anna Misyuk, former curator of the Odesa Literary Museum
Interview
2023
Historical Depth
Interview with Daniel Wildmann, program director of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy at the Jewish Museum Berlin
Interview
2022
Trust is an Essential Part of Life
Interview with Marina Chernivsky on the association OFEK which she founded and the impact of the war on Ukrainian society
Interview
2022
Jerusalem on the Pruth
Markus Winkler on Czernowitz and Jewish Literature
Essay
2022
Moses Mendelssohn and His Time
A deep dive into themes of the exhibition “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment”
Online Feature
2022
The Artist and the Scientist
A project as part of a Year of Voluntary Service in Culture (FSJ Kultur)
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
Masks? Cool!
Competition of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation: the most beautiful masks submitted by children living in Germany
Photo Project
2022
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
Interview Feature
2021/22
20 Years, 21 Objects
Discover objects that have never been shown to the public.
Online-Feature
2021
20 Years of the JMB
20 Interviews
Jubilee
2001–2021
LGBTQI+ & Judaism
An anecdotal glossary by Debora Antmann
Essay
2021
“No, I Want Dr. O.”
Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12)
Online Feature
2021
“Hörmahl”: A Feast for the Ears
Dinner with Lina Morgenstern, Julie Elias and Rahel Varnhagen (in German)
Podcasts
2021
Digitized Books
from our library holdings
Online Project
Four Questions
Short Films by Yael Reuveny about Jewish Life in Germany
Film Project
2020
Lucky Coincidences
Interview with our new Museum Director Hetty Berg
Interview
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
13 Objects—13 Stories
Unusual objects from our core exhibition tell stories of Jewish life
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
New Accents
Cilly Kugelmann on our new core exhibition
Interview
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
“Original Voices Ensure a Diversity of Perspectives”
Interview with Lisa Albrecht about the New JMB App
Interview
Jul 2020
That can’t be! Can it?
Coincidences in the archive
Online Feature
2020
“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”
A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation
Online Feature
2020
Triumph of Survival
Cilly Kugelmann on a photo that visualizes the victory over the Nazis
Commentary
May 2020
Hanukkah Lasts Eight Days...
and for each day, we’ve got a little treat for you here
Online Feature
2017/20
A Berlin Israeli as “Advent Hero”
A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative
Gloss
Dec 2020
Each Object a Universe
Portraits of our conservators and workshops
Photo Project
2020
Anna meets Leonie
Drawings by the volunteer Anna Justicz, inspired by Leonie Oliven’s diaries from 1901–1928
Art Project
2020
How Our Museum Came to Be
Details from our prehistory and the years since the museum opened
Online Feature
2020
Core Exhibition Team
Selfie Project for International Museum Day on 17 May 2020
Photo Project
2020
Kosher Portraits
A photo series about Jewish life n in Germany
Photo Project
2019
Jewish Power. What exactly is Jewish music?
By Fabian Schnedler
Essay
2019
A Jew Is Not One Thing
The curator Miriam Goldmann about the exhibition A Is For Jewish
Essay
2019
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 Project
2019
Unpacking Donations
Family collections arriving at the museum
Photo 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
Consuming Light
A Short History of Ritual Lights by Michal Friedlander
Essay
2018
Night Shift
Insights into the museum at night
Video Project
2018
On Site
The hosts at the museum show their favourite spots
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
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
Diagonals of Diversity
Stephan Becker on Berlin’s Lindenstrasse from past to present
Essay
2016
The First World War in Jewish Memory
Series of eight short videos in which curators present holdings from our Archives.
Video Project
2015
With Love from Fromet and Moses Mendelssohnplatz!
The Mendelssohns' marriage inscribed in the map of Berlin
Essay
2013
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
Matters of Faith: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Nine animated movies
Video Project
2011
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
Behind the Scenes: Anecdotes and Exciting Finds while Working with our Collections (20)
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.
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“No, I Want Dr. O.”
Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12), presented by Jörg Waßmer
Online Feature
2021 -
From Cowpox to Covid-19
The Archive staff members write about nearly 200 years of vaccine certificates in our archive
Online Feature
2021/22 -
Anna meets Leonie
Drawings by Anna Justicz, inspired by Leonie Oliven’s diaries from 1901–1928
Art Project
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 -
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.
Report
2020 -
“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”
A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation
Online Feature
2020 -
That can’t be! Can it?
Jörg Waßmer about coincidences in the archive
Online Feature
2020 -
Kurt: Hunting for Clues
Initially, all we have is a first name, but Jörg Waßmer’s intensive research brings some details to light.
Online Feature
2018 -
Born in 1918, two minutes from his parents’ perfumery on Kurfürstendamm
Fritz Scherk and the history of a family business in Berlin
Essay
2018 -
All for Love
Jörg Waßmer searches for sexual diversity in the collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Essay
2018 -
A Joyful Occasion for the Lustig Family
Paula and Bernhard Lustig’s Wedding Album, presented by Susanne Schuur
Online Feature
2017 -
12 of 12,000
Fallen German-Jewish Soldiers in the First World War
Online Project
2016 -
A Small Window onto History
Aubrey Pomerance, Head of Archives, on a newly acquired Passover Haggadah and its previous owners in Kreuzberg
Essay
2014/16 -
Shot by German Police in 1946
Aubrey Pomerance, Head of Archives, on the tragic fate of Shmuel Dancyger Z. L.
Essay
2016 -
“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.
Essay
2015 -
Salvaged from the Trash
Anna Rosemann on the photo albums of the artist Olga Irén Fröhlich
Essay
2015 -
Conservation of Letters and Seals
Stephan Lohrengel reports about his work as paper conservator in the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Report
2015 -
The World in Miniature
Kirsten Meyer on conserving and storing a stamp album
Report
2014 -
From idyllic landscape views to the trenches
Seeing the First World War through an army doctor’s photographs
Essay
2014 -
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
Essay
2013
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.
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How does a kippah stay on?
Answered by Michal Friedlander, Curator for Judaica and Applied Arts
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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
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Do Jews have their own language?
Answered by Martina Lüdicke, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
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Why do some Jews rock back and forth while they pray?
Answered by Miriam Goldmann, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
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What role do gender themes play? What’s the story with women rabbis?
Answered by Anina Falasca, Curator of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
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Are there gay Jews?
Answered by Anina Falasca, Miriam Goldmann, Martina Lüdicke, Curators of the Exhibition The Whole Truth
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“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.
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“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
Online Feature
2018 -
“... 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.
Online Feature
2018 -
The Exclusion of Jewish Children from Public Schools 1938
What an apparently innocuous postcard reveals
Online Feature
2018 -
“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.
Online Feature
2018 -
“Decisive Defense and Hard Reparations”
The financial punishment of the Jewish populace after Kristallnacht
Online Feature
2018
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
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