Watch Past Museum Events

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Déjà-vu? A New Search for Old Answers

Online Lecture and Discussion with Ofer Waldman and Moshe Sakal

Lecture/Discussion
12 Jun 2025

Déjà-vu? A New Search for Old Answers

Online Lecture and Discussion with Ofer Waldman and Delphine Horvilleur

Lecture/Discussion
22 May 2025

Joshua Cohen in Conversation on Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken

Part of the exhibition program

Discussion
20 May 2025

Collage of four portrait photos: two men and two women.

Paradoxes of Democracy

Panel discussion on the relation of the constitution and its protection by the intelligence service

Discussion
4 Mar 2025

The black and white photo shows a half-portrait of a man in suit and tie with both thumbs up and looking friendly into the camera, with honeycomb pattern in the background.

Happy Birthday, Hans Rosenthal!

Celebrating the 100th birthday of an icon

Event
2 Apr 2025

The collage consists of a picture of an elderly man on the left and a historic photo in black and white showing a woman and child on the right. There is written "Jack Weil. Zeitzeuge im Gespräch" which means "Converstion with an Eyewitness".

In Two Worlds

Conversation with Eyewitness Jack Weil from Amsterdam (in German)

Eyewitness Talk
10 Mar 2025

The image shows on its left side a photography of Kurt Maier in older age and on the right a photography of his teenage years.

Life and Trajectory of a Jewish Family from Baden

Conversation with Contemporary Witness Kurt Salomon Maier (in German)

Eyewitness Talk
28 Oct 2024

Schwarzes Plakat mit der Aufschrift: KOLOT Stimmen von ofek und Jüdischem Museum Berlin.

KOLOT – קולות – Voices

Perspectives on October 7 (in German)

Discussion
9 Oct 2024

The image shows on its left a half of a man's face and on the right a photography of a teenager.

Hidden in Enschede

Conversation with Contemporary Witness Herbert Zwartz (in German)

Eyewitness Talk
16 Apr 2024

Portrait by Ilka Quindeau. The image shows a woman with red hair.

Tolerance of Ambiguity and Antisemitism

Lecture by Ilka Quindeau as part of the series Where Does the Truth Lie? On the Tolerance of Ambiguity by Natan Sznaider (in German)

Lecture/Discussion
13 May 2024

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Tolerance of Ambiguity and the Jewish Perspective

Opening of the lecture series Where Does the Truth Lie? On the Tolerance of Ambiguity by Natan Sznaider (in German)

Lecture/Discussion
10 Apr 2024

Man with glasses looks friendly into the camera.

The Dream of a Jewish-Arab Orient

Lecture by Sebastian Schirrmeister on the writer M. Y. Ben-Gavriêl, part 5 of the Lecture Series The Imagined Orient, in German

Lecture/Discussion
14 Feb 2024

Woman with long hair looks friendly into the camera.

A Time Machine Made of Glass – E.M. Lilien’s View of the Hebrew Orient in Moses (Design for a Glass Window)

Lecture by Shelley Harten, part 4 of the Lecture Series The Imagined Orient, in German

Lecture/Discussion
23 Jan 2024

A woman with glasses and black turtleneck laughs into the camera, around a purple frame and stylized cut green letters.

From Yeshiva to Cairo: How Gustav Weil became a Pioneer in the Study of the Qur’an

Lecture by Susannah Heschel, part 3 of the Lecture Series The Imagined Orient

Lecture/Discussion
13 Dec 2023

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Approaching the “Orient” through pictures – the Life and Work of Jewish photographer Hermann Burchardt.

Lecture by Stefan Litt, part 2 of the Lecture Series The Imagined Orient, in German

Lecture/Discussion
8 Nov 2023

Photo of a woman with short blond hair, black glasses and a blue sweater smiling at the camera, around it a purple frame and the green inscription: Lecture Series.

“Orient” – A Magic Word? On the German-Jewish History of a Term

Lecture by Kathrin Wittler, Part 1 of the Lecture Series The Imagined Orient, in German

Lecture/Discussion
9 Oct 2023

Two men in short-sleeved shirts are standing in the park, eating baked goods out of paper bags and looking at the camera; next to them are two men dressed in Jewish Orthodox clothing.

Boychiks in Berlin!

An evening of comedy with YidLife Crisis

Event
15 Jun 2023

ek Penslar: Theodor Herzl. Statesman without State. A Biography. Wallstein.

Theodor Herzl. Statesman Without a State

Lecture and Discussion with Derek Penslar on the Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the Establishment of Israel, in German

Lecture/Discussion
31 May 2023

I'm Writing You From Berlin. An Evening with the Lasker-Wallfisch Family

Anita Lasker Wallfisch and Raphael Wallfisch join Maya Lasker-Wallfisch in an evening of music and conversation

Reading/Discussion
7 Feb 2023

Two portrait photos side by side: a short-haired middle-aged man in shirt and blue sweater and a man with gray beard and glasses in brown jacket

Vanishing Points of Memory. On the Holocaust and Colonialism in the Present Day

A conversation with Natan Sznaider and René Aguigah, in German

Discussion
31 Jan 2023

Collage of a portrait of an old man with a mustache (Leon Weintraub) and the cover of a book titled The Reconciliation with Evil.

Reconciliation with Evil: Story of a Survival

Book Presentation with Leon Weintraub, in German

Reading/Discussion
27 Oct 2022

A man who writes and a man who reads sit next to each other

Albert Einstein, Hans Kaufmann and Zionism

An unknown letter

Symposium
12 Sep 2022

Read the Signs

An evening to mark the 70th anniversary of the Night of Murdered Poets, in Yiddish and German

Reading/Discussion
14 Aug 2022

Symposium on the 70th Anniversary of the Night of Murdered Poets

Part of the Summer Program for Yiddish Language and Literature, in Yiddish, English and German

Symposium
14 Aug 2022

Red bordered portrait of Moses Mendelssohn looking directly at the viewer

Mendelssohn Discourses: Media Revolution – Publicity, Celebrity, A Flood of Images

Caspar Battegay and Shmuel Feiner talk with curator Inka Bertz and Frederek Musall.

Panel Discussion
5 Jul 2022

Mendelssohn Discourses: Enlightenment – Fake News, Sentimentality, Reason

Philosophers Carolin Emcke and Hannah Peaceman in conversation with Frederek Musall and the curators Inka Bertz and Thomas Lackmann, in German

Panel Discussion
4 May 2022

Emancipation and Law

On the history of jurisprudence and Jewish equal rights – book launch and panel discussion, in German

Reading/Discussion
26 Apr 2022

“Ich kämpfe gegen alles, was mich niederdrücken will“ (I Fight Against Everything that Tries to Oppress Me)

The diary of Jewish communist resistance fighter Karl Neuhof and correspondence with his family, in German

Reading/Discussion
11 Apr 2022

Rafi, Judenbub. Die Rückkehr der Seligmanns nach Deutschland

Book presentation and discussion with Rafael Seligmann, publicist, political scientist and historian, and Hetty Berg, director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, in German

Reading/Discussion
24 Mar 2022

Staging Jewishness

Artist talk with the photographer Frédéric Brenner

Artist Talk
2 Mar 2022

“The Lonely Living Stars”

Concert for the Memorial Day of the Victims of National Socialism, in German

Concert
27 Jan 2022

An accordion player and a singer make music on stage

Shtetl Berlin All-Star Concert

Hanukkah 2021: Candle lighting with Yiddish songs, instrumental music and dance

Concert
2 Dec 2021

Iber der grenets / Crossing the Border: Yiddish Literature and Culture Today

Presentation of an extensive collection of Yiddish short stories, in German and Yiddish

Reading/Discussion
20 Nov 2021

Jews Don’t Count?

Book launch and talk with the author David Baddiel, Sascha Chaimowicz, Marina Chernivsky and Daniel Donskoy, moderated by Jo Frank

Reading/Discussion
26 Oct 2021

Portrait photos of the two lecturers Prof. Marschkies and Prof. Krochmalnik

Is anyone still waiting for the Messiah? – Jewish and Christian Views

With Prof. Christoph Markschies (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Prof. Daniel Krochmalnik (University of Potsdam), in German

Discussion
24 Aug 2021

Film still of a video conference. It shows as split screen four people, each sitting in front of a black and white background consisting of the lettering “Abracadabra” in Latin and Hebrew letters arranged in concentric circles.

Yael Bartana – Redemption Now

Digital opening event with Yael Bartana, Hetty Berg, Shelley Harten and Gregor Lersch
Language: mainly in English, with brief sections in German

Exhibition Opening
3 Jun 2021

The 2nd DAGESH Art Award goes to Talya Feldman

& Opening of the Installation The Violence We Have Witnessed Carries a Weight on Our Hearts Language: English and German

Exhibition Opening
20 May 2021

Portrait of Daniel Libeskind in the axes of the new building of the Jewish Museum.

In Celebration of Daniel Libeskind’s 75th birthday

with Daniel Libeskind, JMB Director Hetty Berg, and film director Axel Fuhrmann, moderated by Sonja Marx of Saarland Broadcasting

Discussion
4 May 2021

Shtetl Berlin All-Star Concert

Hanukkah 2020: Candle lighting with Yiddish songs, instrumental music and dance

Concert
12 Dec 2020

Shared History

Virtual Conference on 1,700 years of Jewish life in German-speaking lands, in German

Conference
7–9 Dec 2020

A girl has a digital camera in her hand, an older woman puts her head on her shoulder.

Conversation with the Artist Wendy Ewald

With Wendy Ewald and Gregor H. Lersch as part of the exhibition This Place

Artist Talk
5 Mar 2020

Black and white photograph of a couple with a bouquet of flowers and a veil, a yellow badge on his jacket.

The Last Veit Simons from Berlin

One of Berlin’s oldest Jewish families in a transnational story of class, gender, and sexuality
With: Anna Hájková and Maria von der Heydt
Language: German, no subtitles

Reading/Discussion
11 Dec 2019

Conversation with the Artist Thomas Struth

With Thomas Struth (photographer) and Theresia Ziehe (curator of photography), related to the exhibition This Place, in German

Artist Talk
5 Dec 2019

Blue and white tea bowl, inside with gold rim

About a Tea Bowl

Discussion with brief presentations about interwoven experiences of post-Soviet Jewish migration, in German

Lecture/Discussion
27 Nov 2019

Ruth Wodak: Swing to the right?!

Ruth Wodak traces how a new “normality to the right” is establishing itself in many European countries, in German

W. Michael Blumenthal Lecture
17 October 2019

Book cover of "From Berlin to New York. A life in two worlds".

Karl M. von der Heyden: From Berlin to New York

In his book Karl M. von der Heyden describes his experiences as a child and youth in war-torn Germany and his journey to the USA, where he rose to the boardrooms of Pepsi and Dreamworks, in German

Reading/Discussion
29 Aug 2019

“To Know One Religion Is to Know None”

W. Michael Blumenthal Fellow Walid Abdelgawad talks about reflections on Islam and Judaism in the writings of German-speaking Jewish orientalists between 1833 and 1955, in German

Lecture/Discussion
28 Aug 2019

Photography of a totem pole in a foggy landscape with lake

Museums, Religion, and the Work of Reconciliation and Remembrance

with the curators Jisgang Nika Collision (Haida Gwaii Museum, Haida Nation & Canada) and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch (Saxonian State Ethnographic Collections)

Lecture/Discussion
9 May 2019

Collage from various identity documents.

Access Barriers. Critical Perspectives on Racism in Schools and Curatorial Practices

Keynote by Bonita Bennett (District Six Museum, Cape Town) at the conference Access Barriers on museums as places of social change.

Lecture/Discussion
20 Mar 2019

Portrait photo of an elderly woman looking friendly into the camera.

The Laskers from Breslau (Wrocław) – A Family Reunion in Music and Words

Cellist and contemporary witness Anita Lasker Wallfisch shares the stage with three generations of her family for the first time

Reading/Concert
27 Jan 2019

Happy Birthday, Academy Programs!

Welcoming Remarks and Introducing the Academy Programs | Discussion with Performance: Archive of Life. Memory in a Society Shaped by Migration | Panel Discussion: Jewish Fathers – Jewish Children? | Panel Discussion: A Pre-fascist Era? | Reception: 5 Years – 5 Friends – 5 Gifts

Video Recording
2 Dec 2018