Second Call for Applications: Advisory Visits Programmefeatured
The Advisory Visits Grant Programme (AVGP) is developed to assist AEJM members in need of expert advise and training, by offering them professional support for expert advice and in house-training. All AEJM member institutions can apply. The next deadline is September 1, 2019. The AVGP offers small grants to support member museums in need of consultancy. By this means, the AEJM is able to provide member institutions with expert advice and in house-training through the support of visits by museum experts to our grantees. It encourages the exchange of information, ideas and knowledge between European Jewish museums, provides training and learning opportunities and promotes mutual support and cooperation in a wide range of areas. Applications are welcome in the following three categories: 1. Collection Management 2. Museum Education 3. Permanent Displays Applications must be in line with all eligibility criteria. Find out more about how to apply for curatorial projects and educational projects. … | Read more »
Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe – Grants
The Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe welcomes applications for the Autumn grant round in the following grants programmes: Archives and Libraries Jewish Education Museums The… | Read more »
Statement
The Board of the Association of European Jewish Museums welcomes the decision of the selection committee to confirm the reappointment of Professor Dariusz Stola as… | Read more »
Statement
The Board of AEJM regret the recent resignation of Prof. Peter Schäfer as director of the Jewish Museum Berlin, Germany. It is of great… | Read more »
"Re-Generation. Jewish Life in Poland."
“Re-Generation. Jewish Life in Poland.” Exhibition of photographs by Chuck Fishman In 1977 a set of photographs by an American student, Chuck Fishman, appeared in a book entitled “Polish Jews. The Final Chapter”. All of them had been taken in 1975, when Fishman visited Poland for the first time. They were a record of his meetings with Polish Jews living in the realities of People’s Poland: the last survivors of the Shoah and the few descendants of a community that had once numbered three million and had been nearly wiped out in the Holocaust, and then further diminished by subsequent waves of post-war emigration. The photographs by Fishman, who visited Poland several more times in the 1970s and 1980s, set out to capture the final chapter in the history of Polish Jewry. Fishman sought to perpetuate the memory of a community disappearing before his very eyes. He worked mainly in large cities, formerly important… | Read more »