Announcement
The AEJM Annual Conference is a unique opportunity to showcase your projects to Jewish museums and museum professionals across Europe. During the Project Slam session in Budapest, recent and upcoming special projects will be presented in short (10…
Two new Board Members will be elected at the General Meeting of the AEJM in November 2018 in Budapest. This year, AEJM Board members Joanne Rosenthal and Bernhard Purin will step down from the Board. Candidates who wish…
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Through the Advisory Visits Grant Programme (AVGP) the AEJM offers custom-made consultancy visits by museum experts to member institutions in need of expert advice and professional development. Applications are welcome in three categories: Collection Management, Permanent Displays and…
Exhibition
The Benedictine monastery and its Jewish history 1945–48 A project by the Institute of Jewish History and Culture, History Department, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), St. Ottilien Archabbey, and the Jewish Museum Munich. The Yiddish poet Leivick Halpern (known…
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Museums carry important functions in the preservation, documentation and public dissemination of Jewish heritage: they serve as repositories of historical and religious artefacts, as exhibition venues, as research centres for academics, as educational resources for students of all…
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The new online Handbook On Judaica Provenance Research: Ceremonial Objects is now available through the Claims Conference. This publication by Julie-Marthe Cohen, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Ruth Jolanda Weinberger covers research of two different categories: classical provenance research, which deals with tracing…
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January 22-23 the AEJM will organize the 2nd edition of Jewish Museums Today: a 2-day study visit to Warsaw that will focus on communication and marketing of exhibitions with sensitive content, using the exhibition Blood: Uniting & Dividing at POLIN Museum of…
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Call for Papers Conference: Urban Jewish Heritage: Presence and Absence 3-7 September 2018 Krakow, Poland Over the centuries, cities across Europe and around the world have been impacted by their Jewish communities; as places of both presence and…
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The Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe welcomes applications for a range of grant programmes. Programmes include Archives and Libraries, Jewish Education, Academic Jewish Studies, and – most relevant to AEJM members – Museums. The Museums Programme is now open for…
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Nicos Stavroulakis, the co-founder and first director of the Jewish Museum of Greece, has passed away. The American Friends of the Jewish Museum of Greece write in statement: “Stavroulakis was exceptionally gifted in many ways and deeply motivated to…
Announcement
The Advisory Visits Grant Programme (AVGP) is developed to assist AEJM members in need of expert advise and training, by offering them both professional and financial support for expert advice and in house-training. All AEJM member institutions can…
News
In September 2017 the AEJM will organise a museum education study tour to London, in close collaboration with the education department of the Jewish Museum London. Focusing on accessibility and inclusivity, we plan to visit over the course of 2.5 days…