Sat, 09/10/2011 - Fri, 12/30/2011
On January 24, 1933 the Berlin Jewish Museum opened at Oranienburger Straße 31, next to the New Synagogue. It was the first Jewish Museum in the world to focus and exhibit not only on art and artifacts relating to Jewish history, but also works of modern Jewish art. Only one week later the National Socialists came to power, bringing about the brutal exclusion of the Jews from German culture and society. Despite adverse conditions, the Jewish Museum had an enormous effect on the Jewish community.
Mon, 04/11/2011 - Sun, 07/31/2011
From April 10 to July 31, 2011, the Aktive Museum e.V. in Berlin presents the exhibition “Deals and Dealers” in cooperation with the Centrum Judaicum at the Neue Synagoge Berlin and through financial support from the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. This exhibition tells the story of art dealers in Berlin between 1933 and 1945.
Mon, 08/30/2010 - Sun, 02/27/2011
Überlebende – Survivors - Nitzulim
Thu, 02/04/2010 - Sun, 08/15/2010
With Berlin’s development into a metropolis in the 19th century, more and more Jews began to establish themselves here. Since 1890, Jews from the Ottoman Empire were among the new immigrants, most of them coming from the area that would later become Turkey. Germany and Turkey had a good political and economic relationship and both countries supported an exchange of immigrants.
Wed, 01/20/2010 - Wed, 03/31/2010
The City of Berlin was, with some 100,000 workers, in 1933 the largest employer in the capital city. Directly after the Nazi Party seized power and in the years that followed, unwanted employees – particularly Jews, Social Democrats, and Communists in central and local administrations and the many city offices – were let go or forced to retire. This often had fatal consequences for those affected and their families. In the Nazi lexicon this was called ‘the work of cleaning up’. The positions that were freed up in this was were then generally given
Sat, 08/29/2009 - Fri, 01/15/2010
The Berlin-born artist Heinz Koppel was one of a number of German-Jewish artists who, having fled Germany for Great Britain in the 1930s, brought with them the “continental” Expressionist and Surrealist-oriented tendencies of the 1920s and thereby exerted a significant influence on the British art scene.
New: Every Sunday, from 15th November until 13th December 2009, the Centrum Judaicum is offering a guided tour - "Who is Heinz Koppel?" - with Anna Canby Monk, head of the Heinz Koppel exhibitions office. The tour is in German. English-language tours can be booked in advance. For more information or to make a booking please contact: Koppel-exh@centrumjudaicum.de
Sat, 08/29/2009 - Sun, 10/18/2009
“My work was, and remains to the present day, in the literal sense that which was known at the time by the catchphrase: Bnjan Haarez (the construction of the country).” Lotte Cohn
Lotte Cohn (1893-1983) was a pioneer. Born in Berlin, she was one of the first women to graduate in architecture from the TH Charlottenburg (later: Technical University of Berlin). Her career path - at the time untypical for a woman – made her also a pioneer of the avant-garde in her profession.
Sun, 07/05/2009 - Sat, 08/29/2009
Field rabbis reflected the presence of German-Jewish soldiers on the front during the First World War. Next to the Protestant and Catholic field clergy, a Jewish component was also institutionalized. Jewish communities and organizations joined together in the hope of gaining increased recognition for the Jewish people and their religion from the surrounding community.
Sun, 07/05/2009 - Sat, 08/22/2009
Jewish Female Athletes in Germany (1920-1938)
In the exhibition ‘Forgotten Records’, which will be presented from June 22 – August 23, 2009 at the Centrum Judaicum in Berlin on the occasion of the 2009 Athletic World Championship, the biographies of three exceptional Jewish talents – Lilli Henoch (Berliner SC), Gretl Bergmann (Schild Stuttgart), and Martha Jacob (SC Charlottenburg) – stand in the foreground.
Sat, 08/16/2008 - Fri, 01/02/2009
Anti-Jewish Terror in November 1938
