Jewish Museum London is now delivering our learning programmes and collections displays in the community & around the UK. Come and visit us at Swiss Cottage Library from 7 March to 4 April.

‘Jewish and Homosexual’: An Exploration of Jewish LGBTQ+ Identities in the Jewish Museum London’s Collection

The Jewish Museum London holds over 41,000 objects in its collection. These objects tell the stories of the lives of Jewish people past and present, including those who are members of the LGBTQ+ community. Some of those narratives may be hidden to us, however this blog explores those objects from the collection that explicitly reveal the experiences of LGBTQ+ Jewish people.

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Pitch Up: Community Voices

Pitch Up: Community Voices takes a new approach to community-led displays, offering a platform for a range of Jewish organisations and individuals to share their stories.
Inspired by the East End market stalls and with a focus on preserving British Jewish heritage, #PitchUp invites others to choose one set of items to discuss the themes of identity, memory and place.

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The Tsenerene

Discover more about the Tsenerene, one of the most popular and influential Yiddish literary works to emerge in the Middle Ages

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Mala’s Cat- A Unique Holocaust Memoir by Mala Kacenerg

Mala’s Cat is a unique book about the true story of a 12-year-old Polish girl who loses her entire family in the Holocaust. Living alone in the forests, her cat becomes her protector, guide, family, and witness to unspeakable horrors. Against all odds, they survive.

This memoir, written in Mala’s own child-like voice, allows readers to see the war through the innocence of a child’s eyes. Sustained by the stories she learned in her grandfather’s classroom and comforted by her cat who she believes is a guardian angel, this book has a unique spiritual richness.

Mala Kacenberg was born in Tarngrod, Poland in 1927. As WW2 broke out, Mala found herself having to fend for herself at the tender age of 12, eventually escaping the ghetto and surviving in the forest, witnessing the horrors unfold in front of her. Surviving by her wits, courage, and the help of a guardian angel (her cat Malach), she was the sole survivor of her family. Mala immigrated to London with other Jewish refugees after the war, where she raised a large family and ran a bed & breakfast.

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