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Forgotten Women Artists
An Appeal for Recognition and Dignity “We used to throw stones at her – we thought she was a witch.” With these words, a former resident of Rishon LeZion ruefully told me of her childhood encounters...
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Esther on a Roll
Detail of a Megillah, Germany, 18th century© Jewish Museum Berlin. Photo: Michaela Roßberg Today, 16 March, Jewish communities are celebrating Purim. On this holiday, the biblical Book of Esther is...
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Cabinets Full of Photographs, Contact Sheets, and Letters
My Week of Intensive Research into Fred Stein’s Archives Contact sheet Brooklyn Bridge© Estate of Fred Stein, photo: Theresia Ziehe In June of 2012 I had the opportunity to delve into the estate of...
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In the Beginning Was … Scripture
An Interview with Cilly Kugelmann about the Exhibition “The Creation of the World: Illustrated Manuscripts from the Braginsky Collection” Mirjam Wenzel: At the forthcoming exhibition, the Jewish Museum...
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Small, Yet Packs a Punch…
Or: How 300 Artifacts from our Collection Were Turned into a Cabinet Exhibition about the First World War Objects from our collections in the exhibition “The First World War in Jewish Memory”© Jewish...
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Collecting as a “Way of Life”
An Interview with René Braginsky When did you start collecting and how large is your collection? René Braginsky: I started collecting books more than twenty years ago. It was my son’s Bar Mitzvah, and...
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“Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and sometimes Latin:”
in Conversation with Emile Schrijver, Curator of the Braginsky Collection What made you decide to be curator of a manuscript collection? When I studied Hebrew in Amsterdam, a lecturer took us to see...
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“Now we’ll follow the intrepid path that Lassalle led us to!”
“Enthüllungen über das tragische Lebensende Lassalles” (An Exposé of the Tragic Death of Lassalle) by Bernhard Becker © Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Leonore Maier 150 years ago today – on the last day...
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Photographic testimony: on the history of the Herbert Sonnenfeld collection
108 years ago, on 29 September 1906, in the Neukölln neighborhood of Berlin, the photographer Herbert Sonnenfeld caught his first glimpse of the light of the world. His photographs constitute one of...
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Pickelhauben, honor crosses and / or Germania? On the differences and...
“Our inclination to hopefulness and expectations of a final victory are unabated and yet the long wait does at times begin to worry us.” The cultural and literary historian Ludwig Geiger, son of the...
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From idyllic landscape views to the trenches: seeing the First World War...
Carl Hartog (first from left) with two colleagues, Douai, January 1914 © Jewish Museum Berlin. Donated by Virginia Van Leer Dittrich Visitors can see an album with photographs of places along the...
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From poster stamps to animal card collections: on small collectors and big...
“Poster stamps?” A short pause, a puzzled look. “And… what are poster stamps?” This was more or less the reaction of every one of my friends and acquaintances when I told them these last months about...
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“A symbol of hope and brotherly love”
An extraordinary gift Medaillon with the image of a saint © Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jörg Waßmer, gift of Fred Kranz Last week, museum benefactor Fred Kranz accepted our invitation to participate...
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The Jewish Cultural Center in Berlin, 1990 – 2010
Hanukkah Candleholder at the 15th Hanukkah Ball of the Jewish Cultural Center, Berlin 12.12.2004 © Photo: Igor Chalmiev, gift of the Jewish Cultural Center to the Jewish Museum Berlin 25 years ago...
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Ich glaub’ nie mehr an eine Frau (Never Trust A Woman)—The Sound for the Film
There are films slumbering in an archive somewhere, waiting to be discovered. And there are films that have sunk into oblivion but then suddenly pop up again, in the form of a soundtrack. The schellac...
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From the ceramic jug to the Pineapple Goblet: Working with archival items
View of Jewish Musem-Berlin storage,© Jewish Museum Berlin, photo: Jens Ziehe It’s cold. The neon light casts a harsh glare. A gray cabinet stands next to another along white walls. The room feels...
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Leo Prochownik
Five stamp-sized advertisements for the company Otto Klausner GmbH, Berlin, ca. 1910-1914. Gift of Peter-Hannes Lehmann Like every museum, we have some objects in our collection that are always on...
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The Legacy of a Long Career: Success Against All Odds
Film Historian Claudia Dillmann on the Artur Brauner Film Collection in Our Library The German film producer and Shoah survivor Artur Brauner has kindly donated to our Museum twenty-one films on the...
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Shot by German Police in 1946
The Tragic Fate of Shmuel Dancyger Z. L. The family at the grave of Shmuel Dancyger; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Morris Dancyger During a visit to my hometown of Calgary Alberta, Canada in the summer...
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Names Come to Life
Emanuel and Johanna Stern, ca. 1903; Jewish Museum Berlin, gift of Alexander Summerville Just over two years ago, I penned a blog text describing a Passover Haggada that I had purchased online. It...
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