Israel

After 1945

This tour through our core exhibition comprises the triangular relationship between Germany, Israel, and Jews in Germany

Guided Tour
By appointment

Déjà-vu? A New Search for Old Answers

Ofer Waldman and Eva Illouz discuss Jean Améry’s connection to Israel and left-wing anti-Zionism as “respectable antisemitism” (in German)

Livestream
Thu 16 Oct 2025, 7 pm

Inside Out – Etgar Keret

You can still listen to and read the short stories of the Israeli author from the past exhibition online

Exhibition
21 Oct 2022 to 19 Mar 2023

Yael Bartana – Redemption Now

An expansive presentation of works by the contemporary Israeli artist

Exhibition
4 Jun to 21 Nov 2021

Decorated Cushion

“ISRAELI, JEW, and now SEVERELY DISABLED—there’s got to be a way to capitalize on that in GERMANY,” Daniel Josefsohn, Berlin, 2014/15

Object from Our Core Exhibition
2020

Tom Seidmann-Freud, Eser sihot li-yeladim

Kleine Märchen (Little Fairy Tales) with artworks for kids, Jerusalem 1923

Object in Showcase
(with digital copy)

A Berlin Israeli as “Advent Hero”

A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative

Gloss
Dec 2020

On the Way to a Poetic-Political Utopia

Else Lasker-Schüler, Durch die Wüste Sinai (Through the Desert of Sinai), about 1935

Object in Showcase

This Place

This photo exhibition explores the complexity of Israel and the West Bank

Exhibition
7 Jun 2019 to 19 Apr 2020

Welcome to Jerusalem

Exhibition
11 Dec 2017 to 1 May 2019

The Jerusalem Dispute. The Fight for Human Rights in Israeli Courts

Lecture by Michael Sfard, one of Israel’s leading human rights lawyers

Video Recording
6 Sep 2018

Stories from Jerusalem: Faith·Love·Hope·Fear

The first fictional VR series by Dani Levy in 360°/VR

Exhibition
3 May to 17 Jun 2018

Rechavia – Grunewald in the Orient

Reading with Thomas Sparr on German-Jewish Jerusalem, in German

Audio Recording
28 Feb 2018

Between the Lines

An evening with Israeli and German poets, in Hebrew and German

Video Recording
9 Sep 2017

Israelis in Germany

Ideological Debates and Changing Identities, in German

Audio Recording
4 May 2017

Tu bi-Shevat Traditions in Israel

Avner Ofrath on trees, fruit, and a breath of New Age

Essay
2013

Cycling Holiday

Avner Ofrath on Yom Kippur in Israel

Gloss
2012

Dateline: Israel. Contemporary Photography and Video Art

Exhibition catalog

Publication
2007

Disposable Eyes

Featuring two photo projects: Promised Land and The Pen-Pal Project

Exhibition
25 Oct 2002 bis 26 Jan 2003

Disposable Eyes

Publication accompanying the exhibition

Publication
2002