Member Update
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews has received the EU Nostra Award for its extensive educational programme, focusing on the preservation and promotion of Jewish culture in Poland. With the support from the EEA and…
Member Update
The Jewish Museum London received a hoax bomb threat and was evacuated on February 27th. Around 100 people were evacuated from the building, and the museum was soon able to resume its activities. Abigail Morris, the museum’s director,…
Announcement
A new Board Member will be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the AEJM in November 2017 in Toledo. In order to provide members with information in advance of the AGM, the Board requests that candidates who…
The AEJM’s very first network meeting dealing with communications at Jewish museums in Europe took place in Amsterdam in February. The meeting, “Jewish Museums Today: Public & Space”, was a part of the AEJM’s new initiative to provide…
Announcement
Jewish Museums Today: Public & Space February 20-21, 2017 Amsterdam JEWISH MUSEUMS TODAY: Public & Space is a two-day meeting that will focus on communication at Jewish museums in Europe. Through this new network meeting the AEJM aims…
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The Jerusalem Biennale will be held for the third time in various locations around the city center of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Biennale is dedicated to exploring the spaces in which contemporary art and the Jewish world of content…
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On September 29, 2016, on the 75th anniversary of one of the most notorious atrocities of the Second World War, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko and members of a broad international coalition gathered today to announce their…
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Concerts, readings, panel discussions, performances, film screenings, participatory displays and a pop up exhibition: Over a period of six weeks the Jewish Museum launched a temporary platform on the Main river. In the evenings, the Pop Up Boat…
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For the 2016 edition of the Museum Education Seminar, the participants travelled to one of the most significant historic centers of Eastern European Jewish culture – Vilnius. Educators from 15 different countries got to explore the capital of…
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The British Library’s collection of Hebrew manuscripts includes items manifesting Jewish cultural, religious and social lives between the 10th century CE and the beginning of the 20th century CE, covering a vast geographical space from North Africa and Europe in…
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International Conference 13-15 March, 2017 POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Warsaw, Poland The organizers of the conference are currently welcoming proposals for the international conference Museums and Their Publics at Sites of Conflicted History. Museums…
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The Rothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe welcomes applications to its Autumn 2016 grant round for projects working with Jewish archives and libraries, and Jewish museums. The Foundation operates a two stage application process. The first stage application form…