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Entries from the Blog of the Jewish Museum Berlin

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Since its relaunch in 2016, our website itself has been magazine-like. For this reason, selected entries from our museum blog are gradually being transferred here. In this way, we hope to ensure that relevant, timeless entries are easier to find via the topics presented on our website. Anyone with a particular interest in texts created within the context of the blog can find all of the blog entries that have already been transferred together on this page.

Since 2017, we publish new articles, features, and online projects directly here on the website (show all online projects).

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

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Holidays: Old Rituals, New Customs (19)

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Behind the Scenes: Entries on the Exhibition “Snip it! Stances on Circumcision” (9)

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Behind the Scenes: Anecdotes and Exciting Finds while Working with our Collection (24)

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Firsthand Stories: A Tour of Tour Experiences (5)

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  • A Tour of Tour Experiences

    Some of our guides, as well as a few visitors, have written here about experiences they had on various tours at the Jewish Museum Berlin.

  • Tactile model of the street sign “Welcome to Jerusalem”.

    Jerusalem for All the Senses

    A report from the visit of a guided tour for visitors with blindness or limited vision through the exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem by Gerald Pirner

    Report
    2019

  • Room view: video projection of Jerusalem on a wall.

    Intense Encounters in “Jerusalem”

    How school children react to the tour through the exhibition Welcome to Jerusalem. A conversation with Marc Wrasse

    Interview
    2019

  • Two guides and visitors during a tour

    How about more tolerance for ambiguity?

    Mohamed Ibrahim and Shemi Shabat talk about their tandem guided tour Jerusalem in Dialogue

    Interview
    2018

  • Exhibition view, wall with the inscription: Snip it.

    On the Hamster Wheel of Argumentation

    Andy Simanowitz, guide in the exhibition Snip it!, reports on stubborn questions and spirals of argumentation.

    Report
    2015

  • Five pillars with the inscriptions: "business savy?", "fond of animals?", "influential?", "intelligent?", "beautiful?"

    The Whole Truth: a Continuing Discussion

    Guide Marc Wrasse about group discussions in the exhibition

    Essay
    2013

Behind the Scenes: Entries on the Exhibition “Welcome to Jerusalem” (9)

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Behind the Scenes: Entries on the Exhibition “The Whole Truth” (7)

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  • Entries on the Exhibition “The Whole Truth”

    What obstacles had to be overcome to open the exhibition The Whole Truth (2013), how it felt as a Jew to sit in a glass case in the exhibition, how visitors reacted, what further things developed out of the exhibition...

  • The curator Michal Friedlander lying on a showcase.

    Trials of a Truth Seeker

    Michal Friedlander on the countdown before the opening of the exhibition The Whole Truth

    Behind the Scenes
    2013

  • The empty chair during the shooting between two spotlights and behind a camera.

    Ask the Rabbi

    Martina Lüdicke about the shooting of the film installation in the exhibition The Whole Truth

    Report
    2013

  • A woman stands at the opening of a showcase and talks to a crowd of visitors.

    In the Showcase

    Olga Mannheimer about her experiences in the exhibition The Whole Truth

    Report
    2013

  • A woman sitting on a bench in a vitreous showcase open at the front.

    From Wagner to the Weather

    Signe Rossbach about her two hours as a living exhibition object in the show The Whole Truth

    Report
    2013

  • Magazine cover with a portrait of Marilyn Monroe and the title "marilyn enters a Jewish family".

    Conversion and Controversy

    Naomi Lubrich on the new interest in this topic and on religious loyalty

    Essay
    2013

  • Five pillars with the inscriptions: "business savy?", "fond of animals?", "influential?", "intelligent?", "beautiful?"

    The Whole Truth: a Continuing Discussion

    Guide Marc Wrasse about group discussions in the exhibition

    Essay
    2013

  • Close-up view of a grey wall with pink notes.

    After the Exhibition is Before the Exhibition

    Martina Lüdicke on the decision to dedicate a separate exhibition to questions of circumcision

    Behind the Scenes
    2014

Interview Series: New German Stories (12)

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  • New German Stories

    From 2014 to 2017, our colleagues from the Academy program on migration and diversity held regular events at the Jewish Museum in a series called New German Stories. The guests' lives speak to Germany, past and present, as a society of migration, and the events take these life stories as a springboard for exploring these themes. Beforehand, the guests were almost always interviewed. We have compiled these interviews for you here.

  • Karamba Diaby is sitting on a staircase, wearing a blue suit with a red check tie.

    Karamba Diaby

    “We should close this representation gap”

    Interview
    26 May 2017

  • Portrait of an elderly lady with a bun

    Anita Awosusi

    On her book Our Father – A Sinti Family Recounts

    Interview
    6 Feb 2017

  • Black and white portrait of a young man with glasses in half profile

    Ármin Langer

    “The boredom of peaceful coexistence”

    Interview
    18 Oct 2016

  • Portrait of a woman with glasses who smiles and looks directly into the camera.

    Marion Kraft

    “The part Black soldiers played in the liberation of Germany from Nazism has been largely neglected”

    Livestream
    6 Jul 2016

  • Portrait of a young woman smiling

    Çiçek Bacık

    “We’ve always been spoken and written about”

    Interview
    13 Oct 2015

  • Portrait of a woman with a blue headscarf, lipstick and eye shadow, looking upwards to the left.

    Fereshta Ludin

    “I wish more people would look in my eyes instead of at my scarf”

    Interview
    16 Sep 2015

  • Black and white portrait of a man.

    David Ranan

    “Other but not foreign”

    Interview
    6 Jul 2015

  • Detail from a book cover: it shows a fish wrapped in newspaper, with its head and tail fin visible.

    Ahmad Milad Karimi

    On his book Osama bin Laden is Sleeping with Fishes

    Interview
    9 Mar 2015

  • Portrait of a woman with glasses who smiles and looks directly into the camera

    Alina Gromova

    Generation “kosher light”. Young Jews of Russian descent in Berlin

    Interview
    8 Sep 2014

  • An older woman with glasses and headscarf (left in the picture) is talking to a younger woman who also wears glasses and is standing at the right edge of the picture.

    Canan Turan

    Kıymet or: A cinematic tribute to my grandmother

    Interview
    4 Jul 2014

  • On the cover you can see a photo of three playing children

    Urmila Goel and Nisa Punnamparambil-Wolf

    InderKinder
    Dealing creatively with ethnic classifications

    Interview
    19 Mar 2014

  • Three women in profile at a table, smilingly signing books

    Alice Bota, Khuê Pham, and Özlem Topçu

    “New German stories”

    Interview
    29 Jan 2014

Book Reviews: Contemporary Jewish Authors (2)

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  • Contemporary Jewish Authors

    Employees of the Jewish Museum Berlin share their opinions on contemporary books by Jewish authors.

  • Book Cover Quasicrystals.

    Quasicrystals by Eva Menasse

    Mirjam Wenzel, Naomi Lubrich and Mirjam Bitter talk about Jewish questions, the lives of women, and expectations of literature in Eva Menasses novel Quasikristalle


    2013

  • n expressionistic painting of an apocalyptic landscape.

    Der Kalte by Robert Schindel

    Book review by Mirjam Bitter on Robert Schindel's novel unfolding the world of Vienna of the Waldheim affair, from 1985 to 1989.

    Book Review
    2013

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