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The Jewish Museum The Jewish Museum of Westphalia in Dorsten, Germany, shows an exhibition on Jewish women in the first women’s movement. Do you vote? Did you attend school and receive vocational training, perhaps even go to university?…
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The European Days of Jewish Culture 2025 explore the richness of European Jewish heritage through the theme “People of the Book”….
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20 Distinguished Pioneering Women Photographers and 20 Contemporary Distinguished Women Photographers…
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Between You and Me: Memory Boxes offers a deeply personal exploration of Holocaust memory through the artist Amos van Gelder’s family history. Twenty individuals, all connected to his family’s Shoah legacy, are portrayed in “Memory Boxes”—portrait-filled containers that…
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In 2016, two activists from the Nordic Resistance Movement put up posters urging the public to seek the “truth about the Holocaust” on their neo-nazi web page. The museum’s surveillance caught the two masked men on camera –…
He would have turned 100 on March 9th this year: Rolf Abrahamsohn was born in Marl, survived several concentration camps, rebuilt his parents’ business after the war, and led the Jewish community in Recklinghausen for 14 years. An…
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Mazal tov might be the single best-known Hebrew phrase; it’s heard at every joyous occasion, alongside its common counterpart, siman tov. But what do these well-wishes really mean? Both mazal and siman are Hebrew words that describe the…
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To mark the 25th anniversary of its founding, the Jewish Museum in Oświęcim has launched a fundraising campaign to restore a unique historical monument: the damaged tombstone of Icchak Izydor Hirsch, a Jewish resident of Oświęcim and veteran…
Eighty years after the Holocaust, the exhibition “The Third Generation” examines transgenerational trauma and the emotional legacy of the survivors. This ties in with the increasingly urgent question: how are we to remember, now that there are virtually…
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Following international trends in museum practices in the USA, France and Israel, among others, the Jewish Museum of Greece’s new exhibition focuses on Greek Jews in the post-World War II period. This is the first time that an…
To mark the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II in 1945, the Jewish Museum Vienna is putting on a photo exhibition dealing with European memory culture and the aftermath of the Shoah and the war…
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An exhibition on Purim, one of the most joyous holidays of the Jewish calendar, focusing on its leading character, Queen Esther. Renaissance works of art and precious parchments tell the story of the biblical heroine Esther and how…