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Theresia Ziehe recently invited us to take a closer look at Fred Stein’s photograph “Newspaper Hat.” Now her co-curator Jihan Radjai presents another photograph that the two of them—as well as very many of our facebook fans—are particularly fond of: “Little Italy” (New York, 1943).

Theresia Ziehe, curator of the exhibition “In an Instant. Photographs by Fred Stein,” explains in the following video clip why she especially likes Fred Stein’s photograph “Newspaper Hat” (New York, 1946):

Immediately upon entering our temporary exhibition “A Time for Everything,” visitors are met by letters of the Hebrew alphabet made from dough and suspended from the ceiling: an installation that complements the three medieval slate fragments showcased below, which attest to children’s efforts to learn to write in the Middle Ages.

Here, Michael Wiehen explains the significance of the slates, which were recently excavated at the Archaeological Zone of the Jewish Museum Cologne: