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Publication: Object Days

David Denemark

Svitlana Gofshtein

Katharina Melanie Trebitsch

Romen Nudelman

Detail from the portrait of Katharina Melanie Trebitsch
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Stephan Pramme
Views of the Exhibition Access Kafka

From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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From the exhibition Access Kafka; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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Kafka, Franz, [Schwarzes Notizbuch] – Drawings, [ca. 1923], סימול ARC. 4* 2000 05 037, Max Brod Archive, National Library of Israel
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Cory Arcangel. Totally Fucked, 2003. Handmade hacked Super Mario Bros. cartridge, Nintendo NES video game system, artist software; courtesy of the artist
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Marcel Duchamp, Boîte-en-valise, Collection Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe; Association Marcel Duchamp / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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Mary Flanagan, Still from [borders: chichen itza], 2010; courtesy of the artist
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Tehching Hsieh, One Year Performance, 1978–1979, New York. Life Image, photo: Cheng Wei Kuong © Tehching Hsieh
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Anne Imhof, AI Winter, 2022, Video, color, sound, 13:56 min, directed by Jean-René Étienne and Lola Raban-Oliva; courtesy of the artist, Sprüth Magers and Galerie Buchholz
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Maria Lassnig, Two Ways of Being (Double Self-Portrait), 2000, oil on canvas, 100.3 x 124.7 cm © Maria Lassnig Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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Michal Naaman, All Welcome, 2021, oil and letraset on canvas, 50 x 150 cm; courtesy of the artist and Gordon Gallery
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Gregor Schneider, Rheydt 1989–Venedig 2001, wall in front of a wall, plaster boards on a wooden construction, light yellow 197 x 313 cm, TOTES HAUS u r, German Pavilion, 49. Biennale Venedig, la Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy 10.06.2001–04.11.2001; © Gregor Schneider / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2024
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Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Weintraubs Syncopators, oil on wood, 1927, JMB, previously Sammlung Hugo Staub, forcibly appropriated in 1933, privately owned from 1962, acquired by the JMB in 2024 after a fair and equitable agreement was reached through the mediation of the Grisebach auction house. The purchase was funded from a bequest by Gisela Schwandt to the Deutsche Bank Foundation. Photo: JMB/Roman März
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Hetty Berg, Director JMB, in front of Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Weintraubs Syncopators, oil on wood, 1927, JMB, previously Sammlung Hugo Staub, forcibly appropriated in 1933, privately owned from 1962, acquired by the JMB in 2024 after a fair and equitable agreement was reached, mediated by the Grisebach auction house. The purchase was funded from a bequest by Gisela Schwandt to the Deutsche Bank Foundation, photo: JMB/Svea Pietschmann
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(f.l.t.r.) Ruth Freiman, representative of the previous owners Hetty Berg, Director JMB, John Staub, representative of the heirs, in front of Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Weintraubs Syncopators, oil on wood, 1927, JMB, previously Sammlung Hugo Staub, forcibly appropriated in 1933, privately owned from 1962, acquired by the JMB in 2024 after a fair and equitable agreement was reached, mediated by the Grisebach auction house. The purchase was funded from a bequest by Gisela Schwandt to the Deutsche Bank Foundation, photo: JMB/Svea Pietschmann
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(f.l.t.r.) Jürgen Fitschen, Chairman of the Management Board of the Deutsche Bank Foundation, Hetty Berg, Director JMB, John Staub, representative of the heirs, Ruth Freiman, representative of the previous owners in front of Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Weintraubs Syncopators, oil on wood, 1927, JMB, previously Sammlung Hugo Staub, forcibly appropriated in 1933, privately owned from 1962, acquired by the JMB in 2024 after a fair and equitable agreement was reached, mediated by the Grisebach auction house. The purchase was funded from a bequest by Gisela Schwandt to the Deutsche Bank Foundation, photo: JMB/Svea Pietschmann
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Fri 10 Jan, Tue 25 Feb, Thu 6 Mar & Tue 8 Apr 2025, 4 pm
Curator's tour through the exhibition Access Kafka
Picture: Mary Flanagan, video still from [borders: chichen itza], 2010; courtesy of the artist
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Bookable tour through the exhibition Access Kafka
by appointment (between 1 Jan and 4 May 2025)
Maria Lassnig, Zwei Arten zu sein (Doppelselbstporträt), 2000, oil on canvas, 100,3 x 124,7 cm; © Maria Lassnig Stiftung / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024
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Mon 28 Apr 2025, 7 pm
Digital Lecture Series – Déjà-vu? New Search for Old Answers
Sasha Marianna Salzmann; photo: Benedetta Senin
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Mon 28 Apr 2025, 7 pm
Digital Lecture Series – Déjà-vu? New Search for Old Answers
Ofer Waldman; photo: Bernd Brundert
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Tue 20 May 2025, 7 pm
Joshua Cohen about the exhibition Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken
Joshua Cohen; photo: Marion Ettlinger
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Leonard Freed, Lighting the candles on Shabbat, Frankfurt am Main, 1961; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2006/198/7.
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Leonard Freed, Simhat Torah ball, Köln, 1961; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2006/198/8.
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Leonard Freed, Groundbreaking ceremony for the new synagogue, Mainz, 18. Juni 1962; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2006/198/13.
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Leonard Freed, New synagogue and new community center, Düsseldorf, 1961; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2008/305/3.
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Leonard Freed, Insurance inspector Walter Seligmann, on a ship on the river Rhine, 1961; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2008/305/19.
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Leonard Freed, Children from Bad Sobernheim on an excursion, Reichenstein Castle, 1961; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2008/305/29.
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Leonard Freed, The youth group, Düsseldorf, 1961; Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2008/305/26.
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Object Images Exhibition Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken

Library of the Schocken Verlag, Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Monika Sommerer
Inventuren. Salman Schockens Vermächtnis / Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken
20 May – 12 October 2025

Dress from the fashion house “Kersten & Tuteur”, Berlin, ca. 1928, silk; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
Inventuren. Salman Schockens Vermächtnis / Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken
20 May – 12 October 2025

Nivea cream jar made by Beiersdorf, Hamburg 1924, metal; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
Inventuren. Salman Schockens Vermächtnis / Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken
20 May – 12 October 2025

Metal box for gramophone needles of the Audiphon brand of the Schocken department store, ca. 1930; Jewish Museum Berlin
Inventuren. Salman Schockens Vermächtnis / Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken
20 May – 12 October 2025

Schocken department store, Stuttgart ca. 1930, photo: Hans Boettcher
Stadtarchiv Stuttgart 9200 - F 2039/235
Inventuren. Salman Schockens Vermächtnis / Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken
20 May – 12 October 2025
Upcoming Exhibitions 2024/25

Leonard Freed, Simhat Torah ball, Cologne, 1961, Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2006/198/8.
German Jews Today: Leonard Freed
11 November 2024–27 April 2025
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Claude Lanzmann's Audio-Archive, Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
Claude Lanzmann: The Recordings
27 November 2025–12 April 2026

Dorothea Kuttner, hand-knotted cushion, 1920-1924, with a distorted swastika in protest at her teacher's instructions, donation by Silvia Rieder,
Jewish Museum Berlin, accession 2022/82/0, photo: Roman März
Defiance: Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era
11 July–23 November 2025

Mary Flanagan, Still from [borders: chichen itza], 2010; courtesy of the artist
Access Kafka
13 December 2024–4 May 2025

Library of the Schocken Verlag, Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Monika Sommerer
Inventories: The Legacy of Salman Schocken
20 May–12 October 2025
The following images are not tied to the display period of particular exhibitions and may be used under the conditions described above.
Judith Raum's work Rustling Papers in the entrance area of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy

Judith Raum’s work Rustling Papers, 2024, in the entrance area of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the JMB; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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Judith Raum’s work Rustling Papers, 2024, in the entrance area of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the JMB; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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ANOHA – The Children’s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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Hetty Berg, Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, and Dr. Kristina Hasenpflug, Managing Director Deutsche Bank Stiftung; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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JMB on.tour; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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Room Views
Drummerrsss by Gilad Ratman, Rafael Roth Gallery

View of the Rafael Roth Gallery with the 2020 installation DRUMMERRSSS by Gilad Ratman; Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the U.S. Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Gilad Ratman, DRUMMERRSSS, 2020, video installation commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin; Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the U.S. Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
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Gilad Ratman, DRUMMERRSSS, 2020, video installation commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin, Jewish Museum Berlin, supported by the U.S. Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
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Light projection on the stairs to the core exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, design: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Chezweitz GmbH/Hella Rolfes
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Entrance to the core exhibition Jewish Life in Germany: Past and Present; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the welcome point and the theme room Torah; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the theme room Torah; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the theme room Torah; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the 2009 installation Visual Prayer by Hagit Hollander-Shimoni; Hagit Hollander-Shimoni, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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The Shabbat area in the theme room Prayer and Practice; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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The Shabbat area in the theme room Prayer and Practice; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the theme room Music; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the theme room Music; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
Download (ZIP / 1018.92 KB)Epoch Rooms Ashkenaz, In the Early Modern Period and When Jews Became Germans

View of the epoch room Ashkenaz; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the epoch room Ashkenaz; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the epoch room In the Early Modern Period; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room In the Early Modern Period; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans, a media station shows Berlin around 1800; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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A glimpse of Weimar cinema in the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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A glimpse of Weimar cinema in the epoch room When Jews Became Germans; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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The interactive Family Album presents ten collections from the museum holdings; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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The interactive Family Album presents ten collections from the museum holdings; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the Hall of Fame; Illustrations: Andree Volkmann, Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the Hall of Fame; Illustrations: Andree Volkmann, Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the theme room Art and Artists; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the theme room Art and Artists; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room Catastrophe; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of Anna Zimet's farewell letter before her deportation in 1943; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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The Anti-Semitism Debate Room in the epoch room After 1945; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the prism display cases with ceremonial objects in the theme room The Jewish Object; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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View of the installation Mesubin by Yael Reuveny and Clemens Walter at the end of the core exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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View of the installation Mesubin by Yael Reuveny and Clemens Walter at the end of the core exhibition; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
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Theme Rooms Torah, Prayer and Practice and Kabbalah

Torah roll, Hohensalza (Inowrocław) 1903; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of the Leavor family in memory of Dr. Hans and Luise Librowicz, photo: Roman März
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Prayer for rain, found in the Memmelsdorf genizah, Memmelsdorf (place of discovery), approx. 1762–1830; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Learning Hebrew, Zimbabwe, approx. 2005; Tobi Asmoucha Photography
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Collection of tzedakah boxes; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Anselm Kiefer, Schewirat ha-Kelim (The Breaking of the Vessels), 1990–2020; Anselm Kiefer, photo: Roman März
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Finger ring with menorah, 4th century, replica; Museum Augusta Raurica, Augst, photo: Roman März
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Abwraham ben Baruch, Meir ben Baruch, and Jizchak ben Meir, Sefer Sinai, Germany 1391; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Portrait of the Schutzjude ("protected Jew") Samuel Salomon from Reichmannsdorf, with Mayor Faber and the hunter Mahlmeister, around 1730; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Two-part coin with screw closure for the execution of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer ("Jud Süß"), probably Württemberg, approx. 1738; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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Torah shield donated by Jakob Gans, Hamburg 1760–1765; Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam, photo: Jens Ziehe
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Yael Buchbinder-Shimoni, Zeena u-Reena, Israel 2017; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Johann Christoph Frisch, Portrait of Moses Mendelssohn, Berlin 1783; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Clara Lobedan, Fanny Lewald in her Study, Berlin 1880; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Max Liebermann, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat, Berlin 1929; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Hand-washing basin, manufacturer: S. & D. Löwenthal, Frankfurt am Main 1895–1896; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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View of the Plauen synagogue, virtual reality application, 2020; TU Darmstadt, Digital Design Unit, in cooperation with Architectura Virtualis
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Käte Baer-Freyer, puppets of King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and Solomon's personal physician Simeon, Berlin, approx. 1924; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Eri Heller, photo: Roman März
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Music-themed playing cards, hand-made by the Librowicz family, Berlin 1930s; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Rudi Leavor, photo: Roman März
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Hugo Dohns, memorial tablet for Julius Reis, Germany 1921; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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Julius Moser, painting of the Manheimer family, Berlin 1850; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of the descendants of Hermann and Mary Blaschko, photo: Roman März
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Max Oppenheimer (1885–1954), Weintraubs Syncopators, oil on wood, 1927, JMB, previously Sammlung Hugo Staub, forcibly appropriated in 1933, privately owned from 1962, acquired by the JMB in 2024 after a fair and equitable agreement was reached through the mediation of the Grisebach auction house. The purchase was funded from a bequest by Gisela Schwandt to the Deutsche Bank Foundation. Photo: JMB/Roman März
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Jankel Adler, Sabbat (Shabbat), 1925; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Jakob Steinhardt, Der Sonntagsprediger (The Sunday Sermonizer), 1930–1934; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Otto Freundlich, Komposition, 1938; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
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Felix Nussbaum, Einsamkeit (Loneliness), 1942; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with funds from the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Sign for the law offices of Dr. Werner Liebenthal, Berlin 1933; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Hanna Liebenthal, photo: Jens Ziehe
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Herbert Sonnenfeld, Leni Sonnenfeld with two students from the Theodor Herzl School playing an Aliyah-themed game, Berlin 1935; Jewish Museum Berlin, purchased with funds from the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin
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Bruno Heidenheim, farewell album for Margot and Ernst Rosenthal before their emigration to the United States, Chemnitz 1936; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Karin and Steve Rosenthal, photo: Roman März
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Torah binder from the destroyed Jewish Museum Worms, Worms 1938; Jewish Museum Worms in the Rashi House, photo: Roman März
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Cilly Meyer's identification card with yellow marking denoting Jewish refugee status, Shanghai 1944; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Trude Meyer
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Postcard from Fritz and Ilse Wolffsky to their brother Adolf Wolffsky shortly before their deportation, Tichau (Tychy) 27 June 1943; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Jon Wolffsky
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Silver that was once Jewish property; Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), photo: Roman März
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Frédéric Brenner, Minima Moralia, Berlin 2017 ; Jewish Museum Berlin, acquired with the support of Friends of the Jewish Museum Berlin
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Wool sweater owned by Sabina Milman, Schwäbisch Hall approx. 1948; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Isa Milman and Sepora Mayim Jacobson, photo: Roman März
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Sabina Milman and Miriam Cecher with their daughters, Schwäbisch Hall approx. 1948; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Isa Milman and Sepora Mayim Jacobson
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Florian Willnauer, Jewish veteran of the Red Army in front of the Soviet monument in Tiergarten, Berlin 2005; Jewish Museum Berlin
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Ètienne-Maurice Falconet, L’amitié au co€, Paris 1765; Property of the Federal Republic of Germany. For provenance history see: www.provenienzdatenbank.
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Daniel Josefsohn, decorative pillow, Berlin 2014–2015; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Flamenco dress owned by Sylvin Rubinstein, Hamburg, around the 1980s; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift from Kuno Kruse, photo: Roman März
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Framed pincushion, Austria, approx 1941–1990; Dr. Wolfgang Georg Fischer, Vienna / London, photo: Roman März
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Benno Elkan, Hanukkah lamp, Germany 1903–1920; Spertus Institute Chicago, photo: Roman März
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Havdalah set belonging to the Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, Hamburg 1841; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Roman März
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Hetty Berg took up the post of Director of the JMB in April 2020; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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Lars Bahners took up the post of Managing Director at the Jewish Museum Berlin in December 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.

Julia Friedrich took up the post of Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Berlin in March 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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Julia Friedrich took up the post of Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jewish Museum Berlin in March 2022; Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff.
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Barbara Thiele took up the post of Director of Education and Digital Engagement at the Jewish Museum Berlin in June 2024; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: André Wagenzik.
Download (ZIP / 992.58 KB / in German)Exterior views of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Old Building and Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, showing the Garden of Exile
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, showing the Garden of Exile and the Holocaust Tower
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Garden of Exile, detail
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, detail of facade
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind building, detail of facade
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Old Building and Glass Courtyard, view from the Garden
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Roman März

Exterior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Glass Courtyard
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
Interior views of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, entranceway stairs from Old Building to Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Axes
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Martin Foddanu

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Axes
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Roman März

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, stairs to the Core Exhibition
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Roman März

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Schalechet (Fallen Leaves), installation by Menashe Kadishman
Jewish Museum Berlin, donation of Dieter and Si Rosenkranz, Photo: Martin Foddanu

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Schalechet (Fallen Leaves), installation by Menashe Kadishman
Jewish Museum Berlin, donation of Dieter and Si Rosenkranz, Photo: Martin Foddanu

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, windows in the stairwell of the Libeskind Building
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Glass Courtyard
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe
The W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Exterior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Exterior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin and ANOHA – The Children‘s World of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Yves Sucksdorff

Interior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the library in the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe

Interior view of the library in the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin, Photo: Jens Ziehe