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In September 1943, two leaders of the religious services of the Spanish and Levantine synagogues in the Ghetto of Venice hid forty precious objects before the Nazis arrived in the city. This set of objects, which was found during…
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An Installation in 15 Rooms by Saskia Boddeke & Peter Greenaway Few biblical stories are as controversial as the one about God’s command to Abraham to sacrifice his own son. Although the sacrifice was ultimately not performed, the…
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The Maisel Synagogue in Prague, one of the dominant buildings of the former Jewish Town of Prague, will reopen to the public on the 1st of July 2015, after being closed for more than a year. The Jewish…
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Have tea with a life-size Tiger, curl up in Mog’s basket with one of Judith Kerr’s classic picture books, and discover the childhood drawings of a girl escaping Hitler’s Germany. The exhibition celebrates the picture books still so…
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The crowd-sourced exhibition Journeys has been extended to Friday 11 September 2015. This exhibition explores the theme of Journeys through personal mementoes, historic artefacts and fine art (displayed in the museum’s Welcome Gallery). Objects have travelled from around the globe –…
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Methodology and Training Handbook A publication of the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 2014. Authors: Petra Katzenstein and Irith Koster. How can a museum find a respectful way of encouraging visitors to open up to things that are unfamiliar and that…
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Alfred Eisenstaedt is an acknowledged art classic of the last century who changed the concept of the photojournalism and influenced its development in the world. His name is inseparably associated with the history of Life, the American news…
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Works by 34 artists from Russian museums and private collections will be presented in three sections, corresponding to stages in the development of 20th-century Russian art: “First Russian Avant-Garde” (1910s-1930s), “Second Avant-Garde” (1956-1970s) and “Moscow Conceptualism and Sots…
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David Heinz Gumbel (1906-1992) and Ludwig Yehuda Wolpert (1900-1981) were two of the most influential artists and masters in the field of Modernistic Judaica design in the twentieth century. Both arrived in the Land of Israel from Germany…
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The popular traditions of the Jewish world are peopled with a host of supernatural beings: the archangels Metatron, Raziel, Raphael and Gabriel, and Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof, the angels in charge of medicine and redoubtable protectors of men…
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A year before her death, Julia Pirotte had donated her „modest” archival collection to the Jewish Historical Institute. It consists primarily of a few hundred pictures of her authorship. Most of the photographs come from the forties and fifties. Only some of them were taken…
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In the years following the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979, Jews were secretly smuggled out of the country. For most of them, Vienna was only a transit stop on the way to the USA or Israel. Their…