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A Is for Jewish
Journeys through Now in 22 Letters
Exhibition
26 Nov 2018 to 19 Apr 2020
Object Days
Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany
Photo Project
2017
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
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
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
Contemporary History Collection
2020
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
LGBTQI+ & Judaism
An anecdotal glossary by Debora Antmann
Essay
2021
A Berlin Israeli as “Advent Hero”
A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative
Gloss
Dec 2020
Russians Jews Germans
Photographs by Michael Kerstgens from 1992 to the Present
Exhibition
20 Apr to 26 Aug 2012
Contemporary Jewish life in a global modernity
International Conference (in English)
Video-Recording
11–12 Dec 2014
Collecting the present
Krätzchen Carnival Cap (Kölsche Kippa Köpp Carnival Society), gift of Aaron Knappstein, 2019
20 years, 21 objects
2021
JMB Journal 20
Insights into the diversity of Jewish life in Germany
Publication
2019
Bar Mitzvah Ark
Learn more about the wooden ark on display in front of our library.
Online-Feature
2022
“Species: Diaspora Jew, Sub-species: Eastern European Jew, Variant: Banana Jew”
Olga Mannheimer about her experiences in the exhibition The Whole Truth
Firsthand Story
2013
From Wagner to the Weather
Signe Rossbach about her two hours as a living exhibition object
Firsthand Story
2013
Apples in Honey and Gefilte Fish
Museum employees share their personal experiences of the High Holidays
Interview
2013
After 1945
Guided tour for groups through our core exhibition
Guided Tour
by appointment
“This four-minute performance means three to four months of training”
About the song and dance competition Jewrovision
Interview
Feb 2017
Jewish Life in the Covid Era
How have you experienced the coronavirus pandemic personally or in your community? How have you approached holidays? Send us documentation!
Call for Participation
2021
Religion and Ritual. Are There Jewish Things?
For groups
Workshop
by appointment
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