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Contemporary Jewish Life

Jewish life today is diverse! On this page, you’ll find a variety of resources and formats from our museum on this topic—from guided tours and event recordings to essays, photo, and video projects, including some from years past that are still worth exploring. Take a look for yourself!

After 1945

For groups and school classes from grades 9 to 13, in English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, or Simple German

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Jewish Holidays
How Diverse Will Germany Remain?

From the series Paradoxes of Democracy, with Ronen Steinke, Dana Schmalz, Doris Liebscher, and Tarik Tabbar, in German

Audio Recording
21 Oct 2025
Déjà-vu? A New Search for Old Answers

Digital Lecture Series

Video Recording
2025
KOLOT – קולות – Voices: Perspectives on October 7

With Marina Chernivsky, Kurt Grünberg, Dimitrij Kapitelman, Lea Wohl von Haselberg, Erica Zingher, and Ruthe Zuntz, in German

Video Recording
9 Oct 2024
Halle and Hanau as a Watershed: Five Years after the Attacks

With Seda Başay-Yıldız, Valentin Hacken, Marie Schwesinger, and Annette Ramelsberger, in German

Audio Recording
1 Oct 2024
Tolerance of Ambiguity and the Jewish Perspective

Lecture series Where Does the Truth Lie? On the Tolerance of Ambiguity, part 1, with Natan Sznaider, in German

Video Recording
10 Apr 2024
Let's Talk About Sex!

Artists interviews accompanying the exhibition Sex: Jewish Positions

Online Feature
2024
“Sex is a Force”

Sex and Relationship Therapist Talli Rosenbaum

Interview
2024
Boychiks in Berlin!

An evening of comedy with YidLife Crisis

Video Recording
15 Jun 2023
Ukraine in Context

Jewish perspectives on Ukraine, present and past – brief interviews

Online Feature
2022/23
Bar Mitzvah Ark

Learn more about the wooden ark on display in front of our library

Online Feature
2022
Homeland/Diaspora

Hevrutah with Akiva Weingarten, Sonia Simmenauer, Elad Lapidot, Aviva Ronnefeld, and Ofer Waldman (moderator), in German

Video Recording
16 Feb 2022
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
Frédéric Brenner – ZERHEILT: HEALED TO PIECES

Photo exhibition

Exhibition
3 Sep 2021 to 24 Apr 2022
Cultural Summer 2021: JMB to 120! Generations and Visions

With Hetty Berg, Daniel Libeskind, Cilly Kugelmann, Barrie Kosky, and others, in German and partly in English

Video Recording
26 Aug 2021
Cultural Summer 2021: From Liberal to Orthodox

Talk with Hetty Berg, Ita Afanasev, Sveta Kundish, Andreas Nachama, Dekel Peretz, and Akiva Weingarten, in German

Video Recording
11 Aug 2021
Collecting the present

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

20 Years, 21 Objects
2021
Cultural Summer 2021: My Jewish Soundtrack

With Daniel Libeskind, Daniel Kahn, Roy Siny, Sharon, and Dmitrij Kapitelman, mainly in German

Video Recording
29 Jul 2021
Cultural Summer 2021: Jewish in Real Time – New Visibility

Talk with Hetty Berg, Tal Alon, Daniel Donskoy, and Leon Kahane, in German

Video Recording
15 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
LGBTQI+ & Judaism

An anecdotal glossary by Debora Antmann

Essay
2021
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
A Berlin Israeli as “Advent Hero”

A somewhat peculiar honor for the Shalom Rollberg initiative

Gloss
Dec 2020
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
Interviews and Essays on Circumcision

accompanying the exhibition Snip it!

Online Project
2014/15
Tradition and Revolution: Female Spiritual Leaders

An interview with Rabba Sara Hurwitz

Interview
2018
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
Old Rituals, New Customs

Museum employees talk about traditions on Jewish holidays.

Online Project
2012–2020
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
Conference Contemporary Jewish Life in a Global Modernity

Lecture The Future of European Jewry – Revisited by Diana Pinto

Video Recording
11–12 Dec 2014
Apples in Honey and Gefilte Fish

Museum employees share their personal experiences of the High Holidays

Interview
2013
“Species: Diaspora Jew, Sub-species: Eastern European Jew, Variant: Banana Jew”

Olga Mannheimer about her experiences in the exhibition The Whole Truth

Report
2013
From Wagner to the Weather

Signe Rossbach about her two hours as a living exhibition object

Report
2013
Russians Jews Germans

Photographs by Michael Kerstgens from 1992 to the Present

Exhibition
20 Apr to 26 Aug 2012
The Sukkah. A Fleeting House for a Jewish Festival

Photographs by Mimi Levy Lipis

Exhibition
4 Nov 2010 to 27 Feb 2011
Salomon Korn: The Fragile Foundation: The Quest for German-Jewish “Normalcy”

Book presentation with the author, in German

Audio Recording
30 Sep 2003
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