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A Lens of Her Own: Pioneering and Contemporary Jewish Women Photographers
20 Distinguished Pioneering Women Photographers and 20 Contemporary Distinguished Women Photographers…
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Statement of the AEJM Board with regard to the decision of five French academics to boycott the Colloquium “Jewish histories of Paris”
Jewish Museums have always been collaborating with researchers of Jewish history, culture and religion, regardless of where they were born or where they conduct their research. It goes without saying that this includes collaborations with academic institutions and…
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Between You and Me – Memory Boxes by Amos van Gelder and Amit Gur
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…
Training
The Central European University (CEU) in Vienna invites you to apply for an English-language Course in Jewish Heritage
This special course will be taught from January to March 2026 by faculty from CEU’s Jewish Studies Program and Department of Historical Studies. It offers an opportunity for students and professionals in the field of European heritage to…
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Oslo and Trondheim Jewish Museums in Norway – Educational Effort Towards Dangerous Conspiracy Thinking
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 –…
Abrahamsohn in his store 1960s ©private
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Rolf Abrahamsohn – (a) Jewish-German life in the 20th century
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! Milestone Moments in Jewish Life
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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Restoring a Unique Polish-Jewish Legionnaire’s Tombstone in Oświęcim (Auschwitz)
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…
© Eva Jünger / Jüdisches Museum München
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The Third Generation. The Holcaust in Family Memory
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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AEJM Board Statement on the Terror Attack at the Capital Jewish Museum
This morning, we awoke to horrifying news from Washington, D.C. – Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram, a young Israeli couple, were shot dead outside the newly inaugurated Capital Jewish Museum after attending a diplomatic event. Following the attack,…
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“Greek Jews after World War II,” June 2025
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…
Archaeological excavations Sobibor © Roger Cremers
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone… 80 Years After the War: Photographs by Roger Cremers
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…