Online Showcase

Let's Talk About Sex!

Artists interviews accompanying the exhibition Sex: Jewish Positions

Online Feature
2024

Het Onderwater-Cabaret

Curt Bloch’s satirical underground magazine and a glimpse behind the scenes of the exhibition “My Verses Are Like Dynamite”

Online Feature
2024

Voices from the GDR

Jewish perspectives on life and the political system

Online Feature
2023

Ukraine in Context

Jewish perspectives on Ukraine, present and past – brief interviews

Online Feature
2022/23

The Artist and the Scientist

On the Berlin based sisters Gertrud and Margarete Zuelzer. A project as part of a Year of Voluntary Service in Culture (FSJ Kultur)

Online Feature
2022

Moses Mendelssohn and His Time

A deep dive into themes of the exhibition “We dreamed of nothing but Enlightenment”

Online Feature
2022

The Prophet’s Ring

A folk tale by Ilse Herlinger, illustrated by Florian Schmeling

Online Project
2022

Bar Mitzvah Ark

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

Online Feature
2022

Story Time in Our Library

Stories read aloud for children

Video Project
2020–2023

Glückel in the Bowl

Go on a culinary journey through the diversity of Berlin’s cuisines with the kosher fantasy creature Glückel

Video
2021/22

From Cowpox to Covid-19

Nearly 200 years of vaccine certificates in our archive

Online Feature
2021/22

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

20 Years, 21 Objects

Discover objects that have never been shown to the public

Online Feature
2021

“No, I Want Dr. O.”

Leonie Meyer’s diaries from the years before her marriage (1910–12)

Online Feature
2021

Topography of Violence 1930–1938

A visualization of documented acts of violence against individuals, Jewish institutions and businesses

Online Project
2020

Four Questions

Short Films by Yael Reuveny about Jewish Life in Germany

Video Project
2020

13 Objects—13 Stories

Unusual objects from our core exhibition tell stories of Jewish life

Online Project
2020

“Since that day, Iʼve felt like a newborn”

A striking document about the 1945 Day of Liberation

Online Feature
2020

Documenting Brutality

Historical sources on the antisemitic violence in Germany between 1930 and 1938 in the holdings of the Jewish Museum Berlin

Online Project
2020

“Say it like it is!”

An interview with Ruth Wodak about media discourse around attacks committed by right-wing extremists and strategies to counter right-wing extremism

Interview
Apr 2020

That can’t be! Can it?

Coincidences in the archive

Online Feature
2020

What to Do with Max Pinselstrich’s Portrait

Make decisions about an imaginary painting!

Online Game
2008/2020

When the Canvas No Longer Carries the Painting

A new method of conser­vation for the painting On the Way to the House of Prayer by Jakob Stein­hardt

Online Feature
2020

Anna meets Leonie

Drawings by the volunteer Anna Justicz, inspired by Leonie Oliven’s diaries from 1901–1928

Art Project
2020

20 Years of the JMB

20 interviews

Video Project
2021

How Our Museum Came to Be

Details from our prehistory and the years since the museum opened

Online Feature
2020

Hanukkah Lasts Eight Days...

and for each day, we’ve got a little treat for you here

Online Feature
2017/20

Zvi Sofer: A Collector and His Collection

Who was the man who originally assembled the kernel of our Judaica collection?

Online Feature
2019

Bread and Roses

On International Women’s Day, Christina Hecht takes a look at various archives

Online Feature
2019

Kurt: Hunting for Clues

Initially, all we have is a first name, but intensive research brings some details to light.

Online Feature
2018

Unpacking Donations

Family collections arriving at the museum

Photo Project
2018

Memories from the Life of Walter Frankenstein

With many photographs from the Walter and Leonie Frankenstein Collection

Online Feature
2017/18

Object Days

Memorabilia and migration stories – portraits of Jews living in Germany

Photo Project
2017

Paula and Bernhard Lustig’s Wedding Album

A worthwhile insight into our archive

Online Feature
2017

12 of 12,000

Fallen German-Jewish Soldiers in the First World War

Online Project
2016

Golem.
From Mysticism to Minecraft

Online Feature
2016

The First World War in Jewish Memory

Series of eight short videos in which curators present holdings from our Archives.

Video Project
2015

1933: The Beginning of the End of German Jewry

Online project for the 2013 Theme Year Diversity Destroyed: 1933–1938

Online Project
2013

Matters of Faith: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Nine animated movies

Video Project
2011

What We Won’t Show You...

In nine short films, employees give insights into our work by explaining “what we don’t show”

Video Project
2009