In 1988, when the West Berlin Senate announced a competition for the “Extension of the Berlin Museum with a Jewish Museum Department”, the intention was to expand the old museum that was dedicated to ...
(JTA) — The director of Berlin’s Jewish Museum has resigned a week after the museum tweeted a link to a pro-BDS story. Peter Schafer announced in a statement from the museum Friday that he ...
(JTA) — A group of 45 academic Talmud scholars has signed a letter in support of Peter Schafer, the former director of the Berlin Jewish Museum who resigned last week amid criticism of a tweet ...
In August 2020, the Jewish Museum Berlin opened its new permanent exhibition in the Libeskind Building in Berlin. In close collaboration with the curators, chezweitz created a separate spatial ...
This 3-hour Jewish Berlin tour led by a local historian explores the triumphs ... as well as inside the Otto-Weidt-Museum, Hackesche Höfe, the Girls School, and the New Synagogue. All of the interior ...
Manfred recorded these turbulent times in a small, hand-made book that he gave to his Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck. Mr. Beck, a Holocaust survivor who again lives in Berlin, donated the ...
Daniel Libeskind, the architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, reviews The Brutalist, for The Forward, New York via Religion Unplugged (OPINION) It is seldom that one enters a film that resonates ...
When looking at the museum plans, it becomes evident why Libeskind entitled his entry “Between the Lines”. Two lines, one zigzagging and the other completely straight, cross one another five times; ...