Contemporary Jewish Life

Contemporary Jewish Life

A Is for Jewish

Journeys through Now in 22 Letters

Exhibition

26 November 2018 to 19 April 2020
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Object Days

Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany

Photo Project

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Russians Jews Germans

Photographs by Michael Kerstgens from 1992 to the Present

Exhibition

– 2012 –
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Contemporary Jewish life in a global modernity

International Conference (in English)

Video-Recording

11–12 December 2014
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JMB Journal 20

Insights into the diversity of Jewish life in Germany

Cover of the JMB Journal

Publication

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“Species: Diaspora Jew, Sub-species: Eastern European Jew, Variant: Banana Jew”

Olga Mannheimer about her experiences in the exhibition The Whole Truth

Background Info

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From Wagner to the Weather

Signe Rossbach about her two hours as a living exhibition object

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Apples in Honey and Gefilte Fish

Museum employees share their personal experiences of the High Holidays

Interview

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Question of the Month (7) Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Jews Show all

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

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