Judith Raum’s work Rustling Papers, 2024; Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Yves Sucksdorff
Rustling Papers
An Installation by Judith Raum
Visitors to W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin are immediately greeted by an artwork in the display cases on either side of the entrance: Rustling Papers by Judith Raum. The cases are filled with models of yellowed books and documents that are larger than any adult visitor. The models are accompanied by audio installation tied to the Academy’s activities: readings from documents preserved in the Library and Archive, such as letters, diary entries, recipes, and other testimonies from the lives of Jews in Germany.
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
Postal address: Lindenstraße 9-14, 10969 Berlin
The following audio pieces associated with the artwork are available on this page:
- Autobiography of Edith Rosenthal née Davidsohn (1906–1985)
- Books on photography from the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Local History: Doris Herrmann. 7th Grade
- Correspondence of the Jüdischer Kulturverein Berlin e.V. (Jewish Cultural Association Berlin), 1991–1994
- Cook books in the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Books on Judaism and Jewish Religion from the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Autobiography of Edith Rosenthal née Davidsohn (1906–1985)
Accounts from hiding in Berlin, 1938–1943
Books on photography from the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- To Live Once Again: The Robinson Album
Displaced Persons Camps: Jews on German Soil 1945–1948
Wien 1995 - The Photographic Staging of the Crime
An Album from Auschwitz
Darmstadt 2019 - The Camera Man
Women and Men Photograph Jerusalem 1900–1950
Jerusalem 2016 - From Concentration Camp to Housing Estate
Pictures of a Model Settlement
Springe 2016 - Abisag Tüllmann 1935–1996
Photo Reportages and Theatre Photography
Ostfildern 2010 - Herbert Sonnenfeld
A Jewish Photographer in Berlin 1933–1938
Berlin 1990
Local History
Doris Herrmann. 7th Grade
A Swiss Jewish teenager and her parents visit their former homes in rural Southern Germany, 1950
Donation from Doris Herrmann
Correspondence of the Jüdischer Kulturverein Berlin e.V. (Jewish Cultural Association Berlin), 1991–1994
Insights into the work of a Jewish association in former East Berlin
Donation from Dr. Irene Runge née Alexan
Cook books in the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- In Memory’s Kitchen
A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
Northvale, N.J. 1996 - Dr. Erna Meyer
How to Cook in Palestine?
Wie kocht man in Erez Israel?
איך לבשל בארץ ישראל
Tel Aviv 1936
Books on Judaism and Jewish Religion from the library of the Jewish Museum Berlin
- Hannah Arendt
We Jews
Writings 1932 to 1966
München 2019 - Esther Raises Her Voice
Jewish Women Pray
Gütersloh 1993 - Francesca Yardenit Albertini
The Vision of a Different Judaism
Berlin, Leipzig 2014 - Dream and Dream Interpretation in the Talmud
Wiesbaden 2006 - The Haggadah That Originates from East Frisia
Berlin 2017
The work by the Berlin-based artist Judith Raum (born in 1977 in Werneck, Germany) was chosen as the winning entry to an art-in-architecture competition in May 2023. The artwork serves to alert passersby to the Academy’s events and also to draw attention to the museum’s archive and library, which are both housed in the building designed by Daniel Libeskind. The Academy is located at Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, across the street from the main JMB building.
Judith Raum; photo: Samira Mosca
Selected Works of Art: Art at the Jewish Museum Berlin (5)
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Art at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The Jewish Museum Berlin houses a collection of works of art which we would like to introduce to you.
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Shalekhet by Menashe Kadishman
This installation can be found in the Memory Void which is located on the ground floor of the Libeskind Building.
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Mesubin (The Gathered)
The video installation by Yael Reuveny brings the polyphony of contemporary Jewish together. On our website you can see four short films from the footage.
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Gallery of the Missing by Via Lewandowsky
On display in the Eric F. Ross Gallery on the ground floor of the Libeskind Building
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Shevirat ha-Kelim (Breaking of the Vessels)
Anselm Kiefer, 1990–2019, lead, iron, glass, copper wire, charcoal, Aquatec
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Rustling Papers
Installation by Judith Raum in the entrance area of the W. Michael Blumenthal Academy, with six audio works online
