Contemporary Jewish Life

Exhibition space with numerous screens on the walls, each of which shows a person looking at the visitor.

After 1945

Guided tour for groups through our core exhibition

Guided Tour
By appointment

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

Photography of woman in blue summer dress sitting on the ground in the forest and grabbing her hair above her forehead

Homeland/Diaspora

Hevrutah with Akiva Weingarten, Sonia Simmenauer, Elad Lapidot, and Aviva Ronnefeld, in German

Video Recording
16 Feb 2022

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

Person alone on one of the red seats in the auditorium of an empty theater, head resting in hands

Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES

Photo exhibition

Exhibition
3 Sep 2021 to 24 Apr 2022

Handmade blue-white-red Krätzchen of the Köllsche Kippa Köpp Jewish carnival society, left side

Collecting the present

Krätzchen Carnival Cap (Kölsche Kippa Köpp Carnival Society), gift of Aaron Knappstein, 2019

20 Years, 21 Objects
2021

Graphic in blue-green tones: people on deckchairs in the museum garden, in the background the glass courtyard

My Jewish Soundtrack

With Daniel Libeskind, Daniel Kahn, Roy Siny, Sharon, and Dmitrij Kapitelman, moderated by Shelly Kupferberg, mainly in German

Video Recording
29 Jul 2021

Without the leaves, I would not have started

Frédéric Brenner about his new photographic essay, ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES, and Jewish life in Berlin

Essay
2021

Messy stack of books with titles such as Torah Queeries, Becoming Eve, Queer Theory and the Jewish Question, and Mentsh

LGBTQI+ & Judaism

An anecdotal glossary by Debora Antmann

Essay
2021

Sharon Adler sitting on a bench in a plexiglass box which is open at the front

An Unequivocal Zest for Debate

Sharon Adler on Jewish life in Berlin

Interview
2021

Four Questions

Short Films by Yael Reuveny about Jewish Life in Germany

Video Project
2020

Christmas tree on Pariser Platz with the illuminated Brandenburg Gate in the background

A Berlin Israeli as “Advent Hero”

A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative

Gloss
Dec 2020

A man wearing a surgical face mask with a package of matzo under his arm rings a doorbell.

Across Mannheim in the Matzo-Mobile

David Studniberg about the great feeling to support others in difficult times

Report
Apr 2020

A Is for Jewish

Journeys through Now in 22 Letters

Exhibition
26 Nov 2018 to 19 Apr 2020

JMB Journal 20

Publication accompanying the exhibition

Publication
2019

Kosher Portraits

A photo series about Jewish life in Germany

Photo Project
2019

Hands holding a book with Hebrew and Cyrillic script.

Object Days

Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany

Photo Project
2017

Quite “best practice”

Tom’s coming out speech: an example that shows how queer people can find their place in society, and how not only they but everyone can benefit from it

Essay
2017

New Judaism – Alliances in Postmigrant Society

With Benny Fischer, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Mati Shemoelof, and Layla Zami, in German and English

Video Recording
16 Nov 2017

“This four-minute performance means three to four months of training”

About the song and dance competition Jewrovision

Interview
Feb 2017