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Our story begins on 1 July 1915 in London’s East End when Russian-Jewish émigré Lazar Berson and like-minded local artists and craftsmen formed a society to nurture art and creativity. For the next 100 years, it’s a story of art, identity and migration and an…
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Publications from the Displaced Persons Camps. The Berlin State Library in the Jewish Museum Berlin. Cabinet Exhibition In the immediate post-war years, in the camps set up for Jewish displaced persons, hundreds of books were published, mainly in…
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L’ART DE VIVRE ENSEMBLE EN AZERBAÏDJAN Une exposition richement documentée, sur la coexistence religieuse dans ce pays du Caucase….
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EUGEEN VAN MIEGHEM AND THE JEWISH EMIGRANTS TO THE NEW WORLD The Jewish Museum’s third exhibition on the refugee phenomenon has been prepared in collaboration with the Eugeen van Mieghem Foundation and with support of the the Red…
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Simon Wiesenthal (1908–2005) played a leading role in facing up to the Nazi past and wrote an important chapter in aspects of Austria’s post-war history that some would have preferred to forget. For Wiesenthal, a Holocaust survivor born…
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The exhibition “Post41” documents testimony from Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Postcards and diaries, extracts from the ghetto chronicle, and photos and film extracts form set pieces in the reconstruction of a story that basically cannot be told. Seventy years after…
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Seminar: On understanding change in social projects 9 OCTOBER What is change? What are the assumptions of initiatives aimed at social change? How to assess whether the change planned has actually occurred? We invite everyone to a seminar…
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After the Vienna city walls were dismantled, the buildings on the stately boulevard that was constructed in its place around the inner city became status symbols for the nobility and grande bourgeoisie. Many Jewish industrialists and bankers, who…
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A combination of documents and photographs from the private archive of Toaff and the Archivio Storico of the Jewish Community in Rome show the biography, work and contribution of rabbi Elio Toaff to his community since the end of…
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It’s easy to forget that it is our subjectivity that colors the world.My work is a reminder of that, and perhaps helps to disentangle projection from perception. Ram Katzir was born in Israel in 1969 and moved to…
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Jewish immigration to Norway only started after the Parliament in 1851 decided to lift the constitutional ban on Jewish settlement in the kingdom. Henrik Wergeland (1808-1845), poet and political activist, was the most vocal proponent of Jews’ rights…
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A student project at the Institute of Folkloristics/European Ethnology at the LMU Munich In summer 2014, as part of a research project, twelve students headed for different destinations across Europe on an ethnographical search for clues. The focus…